fltk::Group Class Reference

Inherits fltk::Widget.

Inherited by fltk::AlignGroup, fltk::BarGroup, fltk::ColorChooser, fltk::HelpView, fltk::Menu, fltk::PackedGroup, fltk::ScrollGroup, fltk::StatusBarGroup, fltk::TabGroup, fltk::TextDisplay, fltk::TiledGroup, fltk::Window, and fltk::WizardGroup.

List of all members.

Public Member Functions

void add (Widget &)
void begin ()
Widgetchild (int n) const
int children () const
void clear ()
void draw ()
void end ()
int find (const Widget *) const
void fix_old_positions ()
int focus_index () const
 Group (int, int, int, int, const char *=0, bool begin=false)
int handle (int)
void init_sizes ()
void insert (Widget &, int index)
void layout ()
void remove (Widget &o)
void remove (int index)
void remove_all ()
void replace (Widget &old, Widget &o)
void replace (int index, Widget &)
Widgetresizable () const
virtual ~Group ()

Static Public Member Functions

static Groupcurrent ()
static int navigation_key ()

Protected Member Functions

void draw_child (Widget &) const
void draw_outside_label (Widget &) const
void layout (const Rectangle &, int layout_damage)
int * sizes ()
void update_child (Widget &) const

Detailed Description

The fltk::Group class is the FLTK container widget. It maintains an array of child widgets. These children can themselves be any widget including fltk::Group, nesting groups allows much more control over layout and resize behavior. Nested groups are also necessary to group radio buttons together.

By default fltk::Group preserves the positions and sizes of all it's children, they do not move no matter what sizes or other children are added or removed.

Setting resizable() will change the layout behavior so that it responds to resizing by moving or resizing the children to fit. See below for details.

You may want to use an fltk::Pack or a fltk::Scroll to get other common layout behavior that can respond to changes in the sizes of child widgets.

The most-used subclass of fltk::Group is fltk::Window, all the rules about resizing apply to windows. Setting resizable() on a window will allow the user to resize it. If you want different behavior (such as from fltk::Pack) for your window you should make the window have that as a single resizable child that fills it.

fltk::Menu is a subclass and thus all menus and browsers are groups and the items in them are widgets.


Constructor & Destructor Documentation

Group::Group ( int  X,
int  Y,
int  W,
int  H,
const char *  l = 0,
bool  begin = false 
)

Creates a new fltk::Group widget using the given position, size, and label string. The default boxtype is fltk::NO_BOX.

Group::~Group ( ) [virtual]

Calls clear(), and thus deletes all child widgets


Member Function Documentation

void Group::add ( Widget o)

The widget is removed from it's current group (if any) and then added to the end of this group.

Reimplemented in fltk::Menu.

void Group::begin ( ) [inline]

begin() sets the current group so you can build the widget tree by just constructing the widgets. begin() is exactly the same as current(this).

Don't forget to end() the group or window!

Widget * Group::child ( int  n) const [inline]

Returns a child, n >= 0 && n < children(). No range checking is done!

Reimplemented in fltk::Menu.

int Group::children ( ) const [inline]

Returns how many child widgets the group has.

Reimplemented in fltk::Menu.

void Group::clear ( )

Deletes all children from the group and makes it empty. This calls the destructor on all the children!!!

Reimplemented from fltk::Widget.

Group * Group::current ( ) [inline, static]

Returns the group being currently built. The fltk::Widget constructor automatically does current()->add(widget) if this is not null. To prevent new widgets from being added to a group, call Group::current(0).

void Group::draw ( void  ) [virtual]

Fltk calls this virtual function to draw the widget, after setting up the graphics (current window, xy translation, etc) so that any drawing functions will go into this widget.

User code should not call this! You probably want to call redraw().

The default version calls draw_box() and draw_label(), thus drawing the box() to fill the widget and putting the label() and image() inside it to fill it, unless the align() flags are set to put it outside.

Information on how to write your own version is here.

Reimplemented from fltk::Widget.

Reimplemented in fltk::Browser, fltk::Choice, fltk::CycleButton, fltk::GlutWindow, fltk::GlWindow, fltk::HelpView, fltk::ItemGroup, fltk::MenuBar, fltk::PopupMenu, fltk::ScrollGroup, fltk::ShapedWindow, fltk::TabGroup, fltk::TextDisplay, fltk::Tooltip, fltk::Window, and fltk::WizardGroup.

void Group::draw_child ( Widget w) const [protected]

Force a child to draw, by turning on DAMAGE_ALL and DAMAGE_EXPOSE, and calling it's draw() after temporarily translating so 0,0 in drawing coordinates is the upper-left corner. It's damage is then set to 0.

void Group::draw_outside_label ( Widget w) const [protected]

Groups normally call this to draw the label() outside a widget. This uses the flags() to determine where to put the label. If the ALIGN flags are all zero, or if ALIGN_INSIDE is turned on, then nothing is done. Otherwise the align is used to select a rectangle outside the widget and the widget's label() is formatted into that area.

The font is set to labelfont()/labelsize(), and labelcolor() is used to color the text. The flags are passed to the draw() function, but with the alignment changed to put the text against the widget, and INACTIVE is added if active_r() is false.

The image() of the widget is not drawn by this. It is always drawn inside the widget.

void Group::end ( ) [inline]

end() is exactly the same as current(this->parent()). Any new widgets added to the widget tree will be added to the parent of the group.

int Group::find ( const Widget widget) const

Searches the children for widget, returns the index of widget or of a parent of widget that is a child() of this. Returns children() if the widget is NULL or not found.

void Group::fix_old_positions ( )

If this is a Group and not a Window, subtract x() and y() from the position of all children. This will fix the positions of widgets created for fltk1.1 that are inside a group.

int Group::focus_index ( ) const [inline]

The index of the widget that contains the focus. You can initialize this before the group is displayed. Changing it while it is displayed does not work, use widget->take_focus() instead.

For some subclasses such as fltk::TabGroup, a negative number indicates that the group itself has the focus. In most cases any illegal value means it will search for any widget that accepts focus.

This is also used by fltk::Menu to locate the item selected by the user. See fltk::Menu::get_item().

Reimplemented in fltk::Browser.

int Group::handle ( int  event) [virtual]
void Group::init_sizes ( )

Indicate that all the remembered child sizes should be reinitialized.

The group remembers the initial size of itself and all it's children, so that the layout can be restored even if the group is resized so that some children go to zero or negative sizes.

This can produce unwanted behavior if you try to rearrange the child widgets yourself, as the next resize will put them right back where they were initially. Call this to make it forget all the saved sizes and reinitialize them during the next layout().

This is automatically done when any child is added or removed.

void Group::insert ( Widget o,
int  index 
)

This does insert(w, find(beforethis)). This will append the widget if beforethis is not in the group.

Reimplemented in fltk::Menu.

void Group::layout ( ) [virtual]

Virtual function to respond to layout_damage(), it should calculate the correct size of this widget and all it's children. This function is called by fltk or by the layout() method in other widgets. User programs should not call it.

A widget is allowed to alter it's own size in a layout() method, to indicate a size that the data will fit in. A parent widget is then expected to rearrange itself to accomodate the new size. This may mean it will move the widget and thus layout() will be called again.

You can look at layout_damage() to find out why this is being called.

The base class redraws the widget.

Reimplemented from fltk::Widget.

Reimplemented in fltk::Browser, fltk::GlWindow, fltk::HelpView, fltk::ItemGroup, fltk::Menu, fltk::PackedGroup, fltk::ScrollGroup, fltk::StatusBarGroup, fltk::TextDisplay, fltk::Tooltip, and fltk::Window.

void Group::layout ( const Rectangle r,
int  layout_damage 
) [protected]

Inner implementation of layout(). The child widgets are resized and positioned so that the area that was initially surrounded by this widget now fits inside the rectangle.

r is a rectangle, in the coordinate system of this Group (ie 0,0 is the top-left corner of the Group).

layout_damage controls what is done. If LAYOUT_W or LAYOUT_H are off then no resizing or moving of widgets in that direction is done.

This is used by ScrollGroup to resize the widgets to fit inside the scrollbars.

int Group::navigation_key ( ) [static]

Turn Tab into Right or Left for keyboard navigation

void Group::remove ( Widget widget) [inline]

Removes a widget from the group. This does nothing if the widget is not currently a child of this group.

Reimplemented in fltk::Menu.

void Group::remove ( int  index)

Remove the indexed widget from the group.

Reimplemented in fltk::Menu.

void Group::remove_all ( )

Removes all widgets from the group. This does not call the destructor on the child widget (see clear()).

void Group::replace ( Widget old,
Widget nu 
) [inline]

Find the old widget and remove it and insert the nu one. If old is not a child, the new widget is appended to the end of the list.

Reimplemented in fltk::Menu.

void Group::replace ( int  index,
Widget o 
)

Remove the indexed widget and insert the passed widget in it's place.

Reimplemented in fltk::Menu.

Widget * Group::resizable ( ) const [inline]

The resizable widget defines the resizing box for the group. When the group is resized it calculates a new size and position for all of its children. Widgets that are horizontally or vertically inside the dimensions of the box are scaled to the new size. Widgets outside the box are moved.

Orignal size, the gray area is the resizable():

resizebox1.gif

And here is the same Group resized larger:

resizebox2.gif

The resizable may be set to the group itself, in which case all the contents are resized. If the resizable is NULL (the default) then all widgets remain a fixed size and distance from the top-left corner.

It is possible to achieve any type of resize behavior by using an InvisibleBox as the resizable and/or by using a hierarchy of child fltk::Group's.

int * Group::sizes ( ) [protected]

Returns array of initial sizes of the widget and it's children.

The sizes() array stores the initial positions of widgets as left,right,top,bottom quads. The first quad is the group, the second is the resizable (clipped to the group), and the rest are the children. This is a convienent order for the algorithim.

This array is not calculated until the first time sizes() is called. It then returns the same array from then on. Calling init_sizes() deletes the array so the next call of this creates a new one.

void Group::update_child ( Widget w) const [protected]

If the child's damage() is not zero, force it to update calling it's draw() after temporarily translating so 0,0 in drawing coordinates is the upper-left corner. It's damage is then set to 0.


The documentation for this class was generated from the following files: