GContainer-class: Base reference class for container objects.

In gWidgetsWWW2: Toolkit implementation of the gWidgets API for use with web pages

Description

Container objects are those that hold other components and may be passed to constructors through their container argument. All objects keep a reference to their parent container, containers also keep references to their child components. See the children array, which is used for this.

Details

The main method for containers is the add method, though this is rarely called, as the underlying method is used in a widget's constructor when a parent container is specified through the standard container argument.

When an object is added one may need to recompute the layout. The do_layout method will inittiate this. To have this done each time a child is added set the argument auto_layout to TRUE.

Methods

add_dots(child, expand = FALSE, fill = FALSE, anchor = NULL, ...)

Function to do process expand, fill, anchor arguments when adding a child

child_bookkeeping(child)

Update parent property of child and children property of parent container

delete(child, ...)

Remove child from container

do_layout()

Call layout method of container to recompute

initialize(container = NULL, parent = NULL, ...)

Initialize widget. @param toplevel required or found

set_child_fill(child, fill, horizontal = TRUE)

Fill can be NULL, TRUE, FALSE, ”, 'both', 'x', 'y'...

set_enabled(value)

Disable/enable component

update(...)

Update method for containers refreshes the layout

gWidgetsWWW2 documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:10 p.m.