NAME¶
Prima::Buttons - button widgets and grouping widgets.
SYNOPSIS¶
use Prima qw(Application Buttons StdBitmap);
my $window = Prima::MainWindow-> create;
Prima::Button-> new(
owner => $window,
text => 'Simple button',
pack => {},
);
$window-> insert( 'Prima::SpeedButton' ,
pack => {},
image => Prima::StdBitmap::icon(0),
);
run Prima;
DESCRIPTION¶
Prima::Buttons provides two separate sets of classes: the button widgets and the
grouping widgets. The button widgets include push buttons, check-boxes and
radio buttons. The grouping widgets are designed for usage as containers for
the check-boxes and radio buttons, however, any widget can be inserted in a
grouping widget.
The module provides the following classes:
*Prima::AbstractButton ( derived from Prima::Widget and Prima::MouseScroller )
Prima::Button
Prima::SpeedButton
*Prima::Cluster
Prima::CheckBox
Prima::Radio
Prima::GroupBox ( derived from Prima::Widget )
Prima::RadioGroup ( obsolete )
Prima::CheckBoxGroup ( obsolete )
Note: "*" - marked classes are abstract.
USAGE¶
use Prima::Buttons;
my $button = $widget-> insert( 'Prima::Button',
text => 'Push button',
onClick => sub { print "hey!\n" },
);
$button-> flat(1);
my $group = $widget-> insert( 'Prima::GroupBox',
onRadioClick => sub { print $_[1]-> text, "\n"; }
);
$group-> insert( 'Prima::Radio', text => 'Selection 1');
$group-> insert( 'Prima::Radio', text => 'Selection 2', pressed => 1);
$group-> index(0);
Prima::AbstractButton realizes common functionality of buttons. It provides
reaction on mouse and keyboard events, and calls Click notification when the
user activates the button. The mouse activation is performed either by mouse
double click or successive mouse down and mouse up events within the button
boundaries. The keyboard activation is performed on the following conditions:
- •
- The spacebar key is pressed
- •
- "{default}" ( see default property ) boolean variable is set and
enter key is pressed. This condition holds even if the button is out of
focus.
- •
- "{accel}" character variable is assigned and the corresponding
character key is pressed. "{accel}" variable is extracted
automatically from the text string passed to text property. This condition
holds even if the button is out of focus.
Events¶
- Check
- Abstract callback event.
- Click
- Called whenever the user presses the button.
Properties¶
- pressed BOOLEAN
- Represents the state of button widget, whether it is pressed or not.
Default value: 0
- text STRING
- The text that is drawn in the button. If STRING contains ~ ( tilde )
character, the following character is treated as a hot key, and the
character is underlined. If the user presses the corresponding character
key then Click event is called. This is true even when the button is out
of focus.
Methods¶
- draw_veil CANVAS, X1, Y1, X2, Y2
- Draws a rectangular veil shape over CANVAS in given boundaries. This is
the default method of drawing the button in the disabled state.
- draw_caption CANVAS, X, Y
- Draws single line of text, stored in text property on CANVAS at X, Y
coordinates. Performs underlining of eventual tilde-escaped character, and
draws the text with dimmed colors if the button is disabled. If the button
is focused, draws a dotted line around the text.
- caption_box [ CANVAS = self ]
- Calculates geometrical extensions of text string, stored in text property
in pixels. Returns two integers, the width and the height of the string
for the font selected on CANVAS. If CANVAS is undefined, the widget itself
is used as a graphic device.
A push button class, that extends Prima::AbstractButton functionality by
allowing an image to be drawn together with the text.
Properties¶
- autoHeight BOOLEAN
- If 1, the button height is automatically changed as text extensions
change.
Default value: 1
- autoRepeat BOOLEAN
- If set, the button behaves like a keyboard button - after the first Click
event, a timeout is set, after which is expired and the button still
pressed, Click event is repeatedly called until the button is released.
Useful for emulating the marginal scroll-bar buttons.
Default value: 0
- autoWidth BOOLEAN
- If 1, the button width is automatically changed as text extensions change.
Default value: 1
- borderWidth INTEGER
- Width of 3d-shade border around the button.
Default value: 2
- checkable BOOLEAN
- Selects if the button toggles checked state when the user presses it.
Default value: 0
- checked BOOLEAN
- Selects whether the button is checked or not. Only actual when checkable
property is set. See also holdGlyph.
Default value: 0
- default BOOLEAN
- Defines if the button should react when the user presses the enter button.
If set, the button is drawn with the black border, indicating that it
executes the 'default' action. Useful for OK-buttons in dialogs.
Default value: 0
- defaultGlyph INTEGER
- Selects index of the default sub-image.
Default value: 0
- disabledGlyph INTEGER
- Selects index of the sub-image for the disabled button state. If
"image" does not contain such sub-image, the
"defaultGlyph" sub-image is drawn, and is dimmed over with
draw_veil method.
Default value: 1
- flat BOOLEAN
- Selects special 'flat' mode, when a button is painted without a border
when the mouse pointer is outside the button boundaries. This mode is
useful for the toolbar buttons. See also hiliteGlyph.
Default value: 0
- glyphs INTEGER
- If a button is to be drawn with the image, it can be passed in the image
property. If, however, the button must be drawn with several different
images, there are no several image-holding properties. Instead, the image
object can be logically split vertically into several equal sub-images.
This allows the button resource to contain all button states into one
image file. The "glyphs" property assigns how many such
sub-images the image object contains.
The sub-image indices can be assigned for rendition of the different states.
These indices are selected by the following integer properties:
defaultGlyph, hiliteGlyph, disabledGlyph, pressedGlyph, holdGlyph.
Default value: 1
- hiliteGlyph INTEGER
- Selects index of the sub-image for the state when the mouse pointer is
over the button. This image is used only when flat property is set. If
"image" does not contain such sub-image, the
"defaultGlyph" sub-image is drawn.
Default value: 0
- holdGlyph INTEGER
- Selects index of the sub-image for the state when the button is checked.
This image is used only when checkable property is set. If
"image" does not contain such sub-image, the
"defaultGlyph" sub-image is drawn.
Default value: 3
- image OBJECT
- If set, the image object is drawn next with the button text, over or left
to it ( see vertical property ). If OBJECT contains several sub-images,
then the corresponding sub-image is drawn for each button state. See
glyphs property.
Default value: undef
- imageFile FILENAME
- Alternative to image selection by loading an image from the file. During
the creation state, if set together with image property, is superseded by
the latter.
To allow easy multiframe image access, FILENAME string is checked if it
contains a number after a colon in the string end. Such,
"imageFile('image.gif:3')" call would load the fourth frame in
"image.gif" file.
- imageScale SCALE
- Contains zoom factor for the image.
Default value: 1
- modalResult INTEGER
- Contains a custom integer value, preferably one of "mb::XXX"
constants. If a button with non-zero "modalResult" is owned by a
currently executing modal window, and is pressed, its
"modalResult" value is copied to the "modalResult"
property of the owner window, and the latter is closed. This scheme is
helpful for the dialog design:
$dialog-> insert( 'Prima::Button', modalResult => mb::OK,
text => '~Ok', default => 1);
$dialog-> insert( 'Prima::Button', modalResult => mb::Cancel,
text => 'Cancel);
return if $dialog-> execute != mb::OK.
The toolkit defines the following constants for "modalResult" use:
mb::OK or mb::Ok
mb::Cancel
mb::Yes
mb::No
mb::Abort
mb::Retry
mb::Ignore
mb::Help
However, any other integer value can be safely used.
Default value: 0
- pressedGlyph INTEGER
- Selects index of the sub-image for the pressed state of the button. If
"image" does not contain such sub-image, the
"defaultGlyph" sub-image is drawn.
- transparent BOOLEAN
- See "transparent" in Prima::Widget. If set, the background is
not painted.
- vertical BOOLEAN
- Determines the position of image next to the text string. If 1, the image
is drawn above the text; left to the text if 0. In a special case when
text is an empty string, image is centered.
A convenience class, same as Prima::Button but with default square shape and
text property set to an empty string.
Prima::Cluster¶
An abstract class with common functionality of Prima::CheckBox and
Prima::RadioButton. Reassigns default actions on tab and back-tab keys, so the
sibling cluster widgets are not selected. Has "ownerBackColor"
property set to 1, to prevent usage of background color from
"wc::Button" palette.
Properties¶
- auto BOOLEAN
- If set, the button is automatically checked when the button is in focus.
This functionality allows arrow key walking by the radio buttons without
pressing spacebar key. It is also has a drawback, that if a radio button
gets focused without user intervention, or indirectly, it also gets
checked, so that behavior might cause confusion. The said can be
exemplified when an unchecked radio button in a notebook widget gets
active by turning the notebook page.
Although this property is present on the Prima::CheckBox, it is not used in
there.
Methods¶
- check
- Alias to checked(1)
- uncheck
- Alias to checked(0)
- toggle
- Reverts the "checked" state of the button and returns the new
state.
Prima::Radio¶
Represents a standard radio button, that can be either in checked, or in
unchecked state. When checked, delivers RadioClick event to the owner ( if the
latter provides one ).
The button uses the standard toolkit images with "sbmp::RadioXXX"
indices. If the images can not be loaded, the button is drawn with the graphic
primitives.
Events¶
- Check
- Called when a button is checked.
Prima::CheckBox¶
Represents a standard check box button, that can be either in checked, or in
unchecked state.
The button uses the standard toolkit images with "sbmp::CheckBoxXXX"
indices. If the images can not be loaded, the button is drawn with graphic
primitives.
Prima::GroupBox¶
The class to be used as a container of radio and check-box buttons. It can,
however, contain any other widgets.
The widget draws a 3d-shaded box on its boundaries and a text string in its
upper left corner. Uses "transparent" property to determine if it
needs to paint its background.
The class does not provide a method to calculate the extension of the inner
rectangle. However, it can be safely assumed that all offsets except the upper
are 5 pixels. The upper offset is dependent on a font, and constitutes the
half of the font height.
Events¶
- RadioClick BUTTON
- Called whenever one of children radio buttons is checked. BUTTON parameter
contains the newly checked button.
The default action of the class is that all checked buttons, except BUTTON,
are unchecked. Since the flow type of "RadioClick" event is
"nt::PrivateFirst", "on_radioclick" method must be
directly overloaded to disable this functionality.
Properties¶
- index INTEGER
- Checks the child radio button with "index". The indexing is
based on the index in the widget list, returned by
"Prima::Widget::widgets" method.
- value BITFIELD
- BITFIELD is an unsigned integer, where each bit corresponds to the
"checked" state of a child check-box button. The indexing is
based on the index in the widget list, returned by
"Prima::Widget::widgets" method.
Prima::RadioGroup¶
This class is obsolete and is same as "Prima::GroupBox".
Prima::CheckBoxGroup¶
This class is obsolete and is same as "Prima::GroupBox".
BUGS¶
The push button is not capable of drawing anything other than single line of
text and single image. If an extended functionality is needed, instead of
fully rewriting the painting procedure, it might be reasonable to overload
"put_image_indirect" method of "Prima::Button", and
perform custom output there.
Tilde escaping in "text" is not realized, but is planned to. There
currently is no way to avoid tilde underscoring.
Radio buttons can get unexpectedly checked when used in notebooks. See auto.
"Prima::GroupBox::value" parameter is an integer, which size is
architecture-dependent. Shift towards a vector is considered a good idea.
AUTHOR¶
Dmitry Karasik, <dmitry@karasik.eu.org>.
SEE ALSO¶
Prima, Prima::Widget, Prima::Window, Prima::IntUtils, Prima::StdBitmap,
examples/buttons.pl,
examples/buttons2.pl.