1.170.3 Send methods

tile ->above: object, delegate=[bool]

Place the argument tile above me.

tile ->enforce: [bool]

If the tile is not yet tile<-enforced, it will force its subtitles to fit the computed tile<-ideal_width and tile<-ideal_height of the tile using tile->layout.

If the argument is @off, the tile<-enforced argument will be set to @off on this tile and all subtiles, after which the ideal sizes are recomputed. See also frame->fit.

See also

frame->fit

tile ->initialise: object=object*, width=[int], height=[int]

Create a tile for the specified object. If width and height are given, these values will be used as tile<-ideal_width and tile<-ideal_height. Otherwise these values will be extracted from the object using graphical<-width and graphical<-height.

tile ->layout: x=[int], y=[int], width=[int], height=[int]

Compute subtile layout and adjust objects. For tiles with tile<-orientation horizontal or vertical this implies setting the tile<-area of the tile and distributing the tile<-members over the given area. For tiles with tile<-orientation none (leaf-tiles) this implies setting tile<-area and sending tile->geometry to the controlled tile<-object.

If the tile has an tile<-adjuster, call tile->update_adjuster_position to update the location of the small buttons to control the distribution of stretchable subwindows.

tile ->set: x=[int], y=[int], width=[int], height=[int]

Principal manipulation method for the area occupied by a tile. Its behaviour depends on the place of the tile in the hierarchy as well as whether or not the tile is already tile<-enforced.

If the tile is not yet tile<-enforced, the width and height components are used to set tile<-ideal_width and tile<-ideal_heigth and the ideal sizes are propagated over the tile hierarchy using tile->compute.

If the tile is already enforced, it will set the ideal size of this tile. Next, it will change the stretch/shrink properties of all members of the tile<-super tile, such that all members before and upto (above, left of) this tile have fixed size and all members after (below, right of) can be resized. Used by frame->event to realise resizable subwindows.