Class View

  Object
      Component
          Flow
              View

public class View
extends Flow

View provides programmable access to UI elements normally created with <view> elements on widget XML specification.

View must always have a non-zero width and height specified. Function parseSize(String, int) can be used to calculate size expressions.

Elements placed on view may not overlap due to hiearchical painting algorithm.

See Also:

Component.setPreferredSize(int, int), Component.setPreferredWidth(int), Component.setPreferredHeight(int)

Constructor Summary

View(Style style)
Creates a new View with specified style.

Method Summary

View	addElement(String name, String top, String right, String bottom, String left, Component element) Adds an element to this View.

Methods inherited from class Component

add, appendText, clear, find, first, get, getAction, getData, getElement, getFlags, getImage, getLocation, getParent, getShell, getSize, getStyle, getText, getViewPort, hasLinefeed, indexOf, insert, isFocusable, isShown, isVisible, isWrapping, last, operator_get, operator_set, remove, remove, repaint, set, setAction, setData, setElement, setFlags, setImage, setLocation, setPreferredHeight, setPreferredSize, setPreferredWidth, setStyle, setText, size

Methods inherited from class Object

toString, equals, hashCode

Methods inherited from

equals, getClass, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

View

public View(Style style)

Creates a new View with specified style.

Parameters:

style - Style to use

Method Detail

addElement

public View addElement(String name,
                       String top,
                       String right,
                       String bottom,
                       String left,
                       Component element)

Adds an element to this View.

Parameters:

name - Name of element

top - Top coordinate expression (no spaces allowed)

right - Right coordinate expression (no spaces allowed)

bottom - Bottom coordinate expression (no spaces allowed)

left - Left coordinate expression (no spaces allowed)

element - Child component to place.

See Also:

Component.getElement(String), Component.setElement(String, Component)