Switchers

[xabialonso]

Hi
Can anybody tell me where I can get informations on Switchers in Visual Age.
They are the best way for hiding/showing components, but I cannot seem to find any information on them.
Are they fully supported in Visual Age?

Thanks
Xabi

[marten]

Hi
Can anybody tell me where I can get informations on Switchers in Visual Age.
They are the best way for hiding/showing components, but I cannot seem to find any information on them.
Are they fully supported in Visual Age?

Thanks
Xabi

What are "Switchers" ?

Marten

[PhotonDemon]

Hi Xabi,

The VA Smalltalk part is #AbtSwitcherView. I wasn't able to find anything about them in the documentation. Fortunately, they are fairly easy to use. You place one in a window of form like any other GUI part. You then place forms on/in the switcher and size them as you like. To select the form to view, you send the switcher the #topViewName: message with the name of the form.

Lou

[marten]

Hi Xabi,

The VA Smalltalk part is #AbtSwitcherView. I wasn't able to find anything about them in the documentation. Fortunately, they are fairly easy to use. You place one in a window of form like any other GUI part. You then place forms on/in the switcher and size them as you like. To select the form to view, you send the switcher the #topViewName: message with the name of the form.

Lou

Ah! I used an instance of AbtSwitcherView in my Wizard framework and actually the code to register a new sub form and change the active form can be seen here:

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newActivePage: aMSKWizardPageDescription
  | formName  |
   
  formName := aMSKWizardPageDescription isNil ifTrue:[ ^self ] ifFalse:[ aMSKWizardPageDescription name ].
  switcher subpartNamed: formName put: aMSKWizardPageDescription instance.   
  switcher topViewName: formName.