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PageLayout

a Window with a FlowView on it for use in ObjectGui's MVC model
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Description

This class encapsulates the common task of creating a Window, adding a FlowView (CompositeView with a FlowLayout on it). It also supports the MVC model by registering controllers that are then removed (sent the .remove message) when the Window closes. Additionally it can resize itself to fit the contents.

Class Methods

.new

Create a Window with a FlowView on it. The PageLayout object can be treated like a Window or like a View.

Arguments:

title

Window title

bounds

Bounds or nil. Default of nil will size the window to the entire screen size. Use .resizeToFit to shrink the window to the content size.

margin

FlowLayout margin.

background

Background color

scroll

boolean: add scroll bars or not.

front

boolean: whether to immediately display the window, bringing it to the front. default is true. You may choose to first add your views to the window and then front it which is useful for large slow GUIs

Returns:

a PageLayout

Inherited class methods

Instance Methods

.window

the Window object

Returns:

a Window

.view

the top most view on the Window

Returns:

a View

.isClosed

boolean: has the window been closed ?

Returns:

boolean

.onClose

Just as for Window, this method is called when the PageLayout's window is closed. The actual Window's onClose method is used to trigger clean up operations, releasing dependencies and will also call this onClose function.

Returns:

get/set onClose handler

.asView

returns the top view

Returns:

a View

.asFlowView

Arguments:

bounds

if bounds are nil then it returns self, as a PageLayout is compatible with FlowView. If bounds are supplied then a child FlowView is placed and returned

Returns:

self or a new FlowView

.bounds

inner bounds of the top level view.

Returns:

a Rect

.asPageLayout

Similar to asFlowView, this message converts nil and various other objects to a PageLayout. This is already a PageLayout, so it returns self.

Arguments:

name

Ignored. If the receiver had been nil then the name would be the Window name.

bounds

Ignored. Would have been used to size the PageLayout

Returns:

self

.startRow

compatible with FlowView

Returns:

self

.indentedRemaining

compatible with FlowView

Returns:

self

.checkNotClosed

isClosed.not

Returns:

boolean

.front

bring Window to the front

Returns:

self

.hide

Hide window

Returns:

self

.show

Show the window if it was previously hidden.

Returns:

self

.close

Close the window, releasing any dependencies and calling the onClose handler.

Returns:

self

.refresh

Refresh the top level view

Returns:

self

.background

set background color of top level view

Arguments:

c

color

Returns:

self

.removeOnClose

Register an object, usually a ObjectGui subclass or an Updater so that when the Window closes the .remove message will be sent to it. This will cause the object to release its dependencies on its Model. This means the ObjectGui (or other controller object) will stop getting update messages and will stop trying to update the View which has just been closed along with the Window. It also means that if there is no link to the Model and no longer any Views that held links to the controller object, that the controller is now unreferenced and will be garbage collected.

Arguments:

dependant

the object that wishes to be sent .remove on closing the window

Returns:

self

.resizeToFit

Resize the top FlowView to fit its contents and then resize the Window to fit that.=

Arguments:

reflow

boolean: FlowView can relay all of its child views in cases where the bounds have changed or views have been removed. This puts them all back in place one by one for the updated bounds. So this may result in smaller over all bounds, after which the window is shrunk.

center

boolean: after resizing, re-center the window in the screen.

Returns:

self

.reflowAll

see FlowView reflowAll

Returns:

self

.fullScreen

go Full screen

Returns:

self

.endFullScreen

end full screen

Returns:

self

FlowView extensions

.flow

Place a new FlowView on the window

Arguments:

func

A handler that recieves the new FlowView as argument

bounds

Bounds fo the FlowView

Returns:

(returnvalue)

.vert

(describe method here)

Arguments:

func

(describe argument here)

bounds

(describe argument here)

spacing

(describe argument here)

Returns:

(returnvalue)

.horz

(describe method here)

Arguments:

func

(describe argument here)

bounds

(describe argument here)

spacing

(describe argument here)

Returns:

(returnvalue)

.comp

(describe method here)

Arguments:

func

(describe argument here)

bounds

(describe argument here)

Returns:

(returnvalue)

.scroll

(describe method here)

Arguments:

... args

(describe argument here)

Returns:

(returnvalue)

Inherited instance methods

Examples