Roger (representing many),
As I said, it's only been a few days, but in that short, often
frustrating time, the good fortune to find the Component Explorer was
not mine. After your response, a simple Google search led me here:
http://pivot.apache.org/demos/component-explorer.html
I see its potential, though somewhat indirect, to answer many of my
questions about attributes and styles, and I thank you for taking the
time to respond to my plea for help and for the encouragement. I'm
often blind to the obvious, but the value and location of the Component
Explorer should be more prominently displayed for explorers wandering
off the beaten path like me.
I understand the connection to the bean methods, but I don't yet know
how to exploit that and wonder why I'd want to, hoping I'll never have
to. I'm completely mystified by skins and how I'll use them to my
advantage, but I think I understand their importance to tailoring the
Pivot experience, and I hope I figure them out someday.
Back to the tutorials with a new and improved perspective . . .
Greg
On 08/19/2012 05:25 PM, Roger Whitcomb wrote:
Hi Greg,
First of all, thanks for using Pivot! And I sympathize with you --
I am always on the Component Explorer looking at things.
Anyway, the short answer to your question is: the component
properties correspond to the "bean" methods in the components
themselves. These would be the "getXXX" and "setXXX" methods of (for
instance) PushButton, while the style attributes are the "bean"
methods for the skin, which (in my example) would be
TerraPushButtonSkin (and all their superclasses). Some of the
multi-value things are a bit tricky, but most have several ways to set
them. Playing around with the ComponentExplorer demo is one of the
best ways to start, as are all the various demo and tutorial
applications on the website (and of course the Javadoc).
And you can always ask here if you get stumped -- we're fairly
responsive because we've been where you are ;)
HTH,
~Roger Whitcomb
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On Aug 19, 2012, at 11:25 AM, GregBrannon <[email protected]>
wrote:
Sorry to be the slow guy in the group, but I find the bxml document
approach
to UI definition difficult. I'm much more confident with it today
than I
was a few days ago when I first picked up Pivot, but I'm still unsure
how to
know what attributes and styles are available for specific
components. The
FAQ says:
". . . So, you can simply refer to the Javadoc for the component to
identify
the supported attributes. . . "
I then go to the API page for PushButton, and I see the buttonData
default
property but no mention of 'x', 'y', 'width', 'height', and the other
who-knows-what attributes that can be used to define this component.
What am I doing wrong? I want to like this GUI framework, and I do
so far,
but I'm still struggling a bit with the actual implementation.
Thanks for your help and your great work!
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