Properties¶

Provides basic widget container functionality. Acts as a merely grouping widget, hiding and showing the children widgets when the "pageIndex" property is changed.

defaultInsertPage INTEGER

Selects the page where widgets attached the by "insert" call are assigned. If set to "undef", the default page is the current page.

Default value: "undef".

pageCount INTEGER

Selects the number of pages. If the number of pages is reduced, the widgets that belong to the rejected pages are removed from the notebook's storage.

pageIndex INTEGER

Selects the index of the current page. Valid values are from 0 to "pageCount - 1".

Methods¶

attach_to_page INDEX, @WIDGETS

Attaches WIDGETS to INDEXth page. The widgets not necessarily must be children of the notebook widget. If the INDEXth page is not current, the widgets get hidden and disabled; otherwise their state is not changed.

contains_widget WIDGET

Searches for WIDGET in the attached widgets list. If found, returns two integers: location page index and widget list index. Otherwise returns an empty list.

delete_page [ INDEX = -1, REMOVE_CHILDREN = 1 ]

Deletes the INDEXth page, and detaches the widgets associated with it. If REMOVE_CHILDREN is 1, the detached widgets are destroyed.

delete_widget WIDGET

Detaches WIDGET from the widget list and destroys the widget.

detach_from_page WIDGET

Detaches WIDGET from the widget list.

insert CLASS, %PROFILE [[ CLASS, %PROFILE], ... ]

Creates one or more widgets with the "owner" property set to the caller widget, and returns the list of references to the newly created objects.

See "insert" in Prima::Widget for details.

insert_page [ INDEX = -1 ]

Inserts a new empty page at INDEX. The valid range is from 0 to "pageCount"; setting INDEX equal to "pageCount" is equivalent to appending a page to the end of the page list.

insert_to_page INDEX, CLASS, %PROFILE, [[ CLASS, %PROFILE], ... ]

Inserts one or more widgets to the INDEXth page. The semantics of setting CLASS and PROFILE, as well as the return values are fully equivalent to the "insert" method.

See "insert" in Prima::Widget for details.

insert_transparent CLASS, %PROFILE, [[ CLASS, %PROFILE], ... ]

Inserts one or more widgets to the notebook widget, but does not add widgets to the widget list, so the widgets are not flipped together with pages. Useful for setting omnipresent ( or transparent ) widgets, visible on all pages.

The semantics of setting CLASS and PROFILE, as well as the return values are fully equivalent to the "insert" method.

See "insert" in Prima::Widget for details.

move_widget WIDGET, INDEX

Moves WIDGET to the INDEXth page.

widget_get WIDGET, PROPERTY

Returns PROPERTY value of WIDGET. If PROPERTY is affected by the page flipping mechanism, the internal flag value is returned instead.

widget_set WIDGET, %PROFILE

Calls "set" on WIDGET with PROFILE and updates the internal "visible", "enabled", "current", and "geometry" properties if these are present in PROFILE.

See "set" in Prima::Object.

widgets_from_page INDEX

Returns list of widgets associated with the INDEXth page.

Events¶

Change OLD_PAGE_INDEX, NEW_PAGE_INDEX

Called when the "pageIndex" value is changed from OLD_PAGE_INDEX to NEW_PAGE_INDEX. Current implementation invokes this notification while the notebook widget is in the locked state so no redraw requests are honored during the execution of the notification.

Bugs¶

Since the notebook operates directly on children widgets' "::visible" and "::enable" properties, there is a problem when a widget associated with a non-active page must be explicitly hidden or disabled. As a result, such a widget would become visible and enabled anyway. This happens because Prima API does not cache property requests. For example, after the execution of the following code

        $notebook-> pageIndex(1);
        my $widget = $notebook-> insert_to_page( 0, ... );
        $widget-> visible(0);
        $notebook-> pageIndex(0);

$widget will still become visible. As a workaround, the "widget_set" method can be suggested, to be called together with the explicit state calls. Changing the

        $widget-> visible(0);

code to

        $notebook-> widget_set( $widget, visible => 0);

solves the problem, but introduces an inconsistency in API.

Properties¶

colored BOOLEAN

A boolean property, selects whether each tab uses unique color ( OS/2 Warp 4 style ), or all tabs are drawn with "backColor".

Default value: 1

colorset ARRAY

Allows to specify custom colors for the tabs.

Used only when "colored" is set to 1.

firstTab INTEGER

Selects the first ( leftmost ) visible tab.

focusedTab INTEGER

Selects the currently focused tab. This property value is almost always equal to "tabIndex" except when the widget is navigated by arrow keys, and the tab selection does not occur until the user presses the return key.

topMost BOOLEAN

Selects the way the widget is oriented. If 1, the widget is drawn as if it resides on top of another widget. If 0, it is drawn as if it is at the bottom.

Default value: 1

tabIndex INDEX

Selects the INDEXth tab. When changed, the "Change" notification is triggered.

tabs ARRAY

An array of text scalars. Each scalar corresponds to a tab and is displayed correspondingly. The class supports single-line text strings only; newline characters are not respected.

Methods¶

get_item_width INDEX

Returns width in pixels of the INDEXth tab.

tab2firstTab INDEX

Returns the index of the tab that will be drawn leftmost if the INDEXth tab is to be displayed.

insert_tab TEXT, [ POSITION = -1 ]

Inserts a new tab text at the given position, which is at the end by default

delete_tab POSITION

Removes the tab from the given position

Events¶

Change

Triggered when the "tabIndex" property is changed.

DrawTab CANVAS, INDEX, COLOR_SET, POLYGON1, POLYGON2

Called when the INDEXth tab is to be drawn on CANVAS. COLOR_SET is an array reference that consists of four cached color values: foreground, background, dark 3d color, and light 3d color. POLYGON1 and POLYGON2 are array references that contain four points as integer pairs in (X,Y)-coordinates. POLYGON1 keeps the coordinates of the larger polygon of a tab, while POLYGON2 of the smaller. Text is displayed inside the larger polygon:

   POLYGON1
        [2,3]        [4,5]
          o..........o
         .            .
   [0,1].   TAB_TEXT   . [6,7]
       o................o
   POLYGON2
    [0,1]               [2,3]
       o................o
   [6,7]o..............o[4,5]
    

Depending on the "topMost" property value, POLYGON1 and POLYGON2 change their mutual vertical orientation.

The notification is always called from within the "begin_paint/end_paint" block.

MeasureTab INDEX, REF

Stores the width of the INDEXth tab in pixels into the REF scalar value. This notification must be called from within the "begin_paint_info/end_paint_info" block.

Properties¶

The class forwards the following properties of "Prima::TabSet", which are described in Prima::TabSet: "colored", "colorset"

defaultInsertPage INTEGER

Selects the page where widgets attached by the "insert" call are assigned to. If set to "undef", the default page is the current page.

Default value: "undef".

notebookClass STRING

Assigns the notebook widget class.

Create-only property.

Default value: "Prima::Notebook"

notebookProfile HASH

Assigns a hash of properties passed to the notebook widget during the creation.

Create-only property.

notebookDelegations ARRAY

Assigns a list of delegated notifications to the notebook widget.

Create-only property.

orientation INTEGER

Selects one of the following tno::XXX constants

pageIndex INTEGER

Selects the INDEXth page or a tabset widget ( the second-level tab ). When this property is triggered, "tabIndex" can change its value, and the "Change" notification is triggered.

style INTEGER

Selects one of the following tns::XXX constants

tabIndex INTEGER

Selects the INDEXth tab on the tabset widget using the first-level tab numeration.

tabs ARRAY

Manages the number and names of notebook pages. ARRAY is an anonymous array of text scalars where each corresponds to a single first-level tab and a single notebook page, however, with a single exception. To define second-level tabs, the same text string must be repeated as many times as many second-level tabs are needed. For example, the code

        $nb-> tabs('1st', ('2nd') x 3);
    

results in the creation of a notebook of four pages and two first-level tabs. The tab '2nd' contains three second-level pages.

The property implicitly operates the underlying notebook's "pageCount" property. When changed at run-time, its effect on the children widgets is therefore the same. See pageCount for more information.

tabsetClass STRING

Assigns the tab set widget class.

Create-only property.

Default value: "Prima::TabSet"

tabsetProfile HASH

Assigns a hash of properties passed to the tab set widget during the creation.

Create-only property.

tabsetDelegations ARRAY

Assigns a list of delegated notifications to the tab set widget.

Create-only property.

Methods¶

The class forwards the following methods of "Prima::Notebook", which are described in Prima::Notebook: "attach_to_page", "insert_to_page", "insert", "insert_transparent", "delete_widget", "detach_from_page", "move_widget", "contains_widget", "widget_get", "widget_set", "widgets_from_page".

tab2page INDEX

Returns the second-level tab index that corresponds to the INDEXth first-level tab.

page2tab INDEX

Returns the first-level tab index that corresponds to the INDEXth second-level tab.

insert_page TEXT, [ POSITION = -1 ]

Inserts a new page with text at the given position, which is at the end by default. If the TEXT is the same as the existing tab left or right from POSITION, the page is joined to the existing tab as a page; otherwise, a new tab is created.

delete_page POSITION

Removes the page from the given position.

Events¶

Change OLD_PAGE_INDEX, NEW_PAGE_INDEX

Triggered when the "pageIndex" property changes its value from OLD_PAGE_INDEX to NEW_PAGE_INDEX.