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[ALLY] Re: Layout Bind or Context in stylized Layouts

From: jeff:rebol at: 13-Nov-2000 5:44

Howdy, Volker:
> there is also an automation for keywords like in [list > .. data], but i have not figured it out. someone? > > Volker
Sure. Here's a fairly simple example of including custom words in your style: a-style: stylize [ color-box: box with [ colors: none action: [ if tail? colors: next colors [ colors: head colors ] color: first colors show face ] words: [colors [new/colors: copy next args]] ] ] view layout [ styles a-style color-box colors 255.0.0 0.255.0 0.0.255 127.20.50 30.60.90 button "Close" [unview/all] ] In your style, you define a field called 'words, and the words field has the format: [word [action-on-args]]. While LAYOUT is parsing the block you hand it, if it encounters your style it will then look for your custom words bracketed between the current style and the next style that it can see later on. The arguments for your style's custom word can then be determined and they are passed to the code that you define in the "action-on-args" block. The arguments that your custom word action-on-args block receives begin starting on the custom word you defined. Here's an example to see how this works more directly: style-2: stylize [ arg-text: text with [ words: [args [new/text: reform ["My args:" args]]] ] ] view layout [ styles style-2 txt "Hello" arg-text black [print "ARG-TEXT"] args [1 #2 [foo--bar] http://url] button "Close" [unview/all] ] Notice above that one of the real advantages to using custom words is we can now have more than one block of stuff associated with the style. Having more that one block of data for a style allows us to both easily define an action associated with a style along with the ability to pass in other necessary stuff for the style to use. Within the "action-on-args" block for the WORDS field, the newly created instance of our style, arg-text, is referred to as NEW. Whatever we do to NEW will happen to the resulting VID object. However, with some experimentation you'll find that if you include a string with your arg-text instance in a layout, the string will override your setting of the text via the 'args word. (ie: view layout [ arg-text "This is what you'll see" args [1 2 3] ] ) Certain steps in the LAYOUT pipeline take precedence over others because of when they happen. For kicks we'll look at one more fun example: style-3: stylize [ two-act-box: box with [ toggle: a1: a2: none action: [ do func [face] either toggle: not toggle [a1][a2] self ] words: [ action1 [new/a1: second args next args] action2 [new/a2: second args next args] ] ] ] view layout [ styles style-3 two-act-box "Click me" red action1 [inform layout [text "Action 1!"]] action2 [face/color: random 0.0.255 show face] ] In the code above, we've created a box that has two different actions that toggle back and forth each time you click on the box. The trick, here, is to turn our two separate actions into functions expecting a face, and pass in SELF. One other important thing to observe: At the end of the blocks in WORDS where we define the "action-on-args" for action1 and action2, we have "NEXT ARGS". The "action-on-args" block of WORDS returns a value to LAYOUT, namely it returns the position of the arguments block for LAYOUT to know how much you've gobbled. The effect of including "NEXT ARGS" above is to cause LAYOUT, after parsing your style's custom word, to position itself after the arguments that you have consumed for your custom words, (ready to parse the next custom word). Basically, the above example will not work unless you include those seemingly mysterious "NEXT ARGS". :-) Cheers-- -jeff