Button

Button

new Button(optionsopt)

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Properties:
Name Type Attributes Default Description
options.label String | Boolean <optional>
 false

Text for the button label. Set to false to remove the label from DOM.
options.icon String | Boolean <optional>
 false

URL to an image file or an icon class (see styles/fonts/AUX.html). If set to false, the icon is removed from DOM.
options.state Boolean <optional>
 false

State of the button, reflected as class .aux-active.
options.layout String <optional>
 "horizontal"

Define the arrangement of label and icon. vertical means icon above the label, horizontal places the icon left to the label.
options.delay Integer <optional>
 0

Enable delayed events. The value is set in milliseconds. If this is set to >0, Button fires some additional events, most importantly press_start after the delay has finished without the user leaving the button or lifting the pointer.

Button is a simple, clickable widget containing an Icon and a Label to trigger functions. Button serves as base for other widgets, too, e.g. Toggle, ConfirmButton and Select.

Parameters:
Name Type Attributes Default Description
options Object <optional>
 { }

An object containing initial options.

Extends

Members

element :HTMLDivElement

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The main DIV element. Has class .aux-button.

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icon :Icon

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The Icon widget.

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label :Label

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The Label of the button.

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Methods

addChild(child)

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Registers a widget as a child widget. This method is used to build up the widget tree. It does not modify the DOM tree.

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Name Type Description
child Widget

The child to add.
Fires:
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addChildren(a)

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Registers an array of widgets as children.

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Name Type Description
a Array.<Widget>

An array of Widgets.

allChildren()

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Returns an array of all children.

appendChild(child)

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Appends child.element to the widget element and registers child as a child widget.

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child Widget

The child widget to append.

appendChildren(children)

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Calls Widget#appendChild for an array of widgets.

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Name Type Description
children Array.<Widget>

The child widgets to append.

disableTansitions()

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Disable CSS transitions.

enableDraw()

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Schedules this widget for drawing.

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enableDrawChildren()

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Enables rendering for all children of this widget.

enableTransitions()

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Enable CSS transitions.

forceHide()

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Hide the widget immediately by applying the class aux-hide. Does not call disableDraw().

forceShow()

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Show the widget immediately by applying the class aux-show. Does not call enableDraw().

getStyle()

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Returns the computed style of this widget's DOM element.

hidden()

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Returns the current hidden status.

hide()

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Hide the widget. This will result in the class aux-hide being applied to this widget in the next rendering step.

invalidate(key)

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Invalidates an option and triggers a redraw() call.

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Name Type Description
key string

observeResize(cb)

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Calls a callback whenever the widget resizes. This method will trigger one resize.

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Name Type Description
cb function

removeChild(child)

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Removes a child widget. Note that this method only modifies the widget tree and does not change the DOM.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
child Widget

The child to remove.
Fires:
  • Widget#event:child_removed

removeChildren(a)

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Removes an array of children.

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a Array.<Widget>

An array of Widgets.

set(key, value)

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Sets an option.

Parameters:
Name Type Description
key string

The option name.
value

The option value.

setStyle()

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Sets a CSS style property in this widget's DOM element.

show()

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Make the widget visible. This will apply the class aux-show during the next rendering step.

toggleHidden()

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Toggle the hidden status. This is equivalent to calling hide() or show(), depending on the current hidden status of this widget.

transitionsDisabled()

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Returns true if transitions are currently disabled on this widget.

visibleChildren()

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Returns an array of all visible children.

Events

clicked

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Is fired if a delay is set, after the pointer is released and the timeout hasn't finished yet. Doesn't fire after the timeout finished.

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Name Type Description
event Event

Either the MouseEvent or the TouchEvent.

destroy

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Is fired when a widget is destroyed.

doubleclick

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Is fired after a double click appeared. Set dblclick to 0 to disable click event handling.

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Name Type Description
event string

The browsers MouseEvent.

GenericDOMEvents

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Generic DOM events. Please refer to W3Schools for further details.

hide

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The hide event is emitted when a widget is hidden and is not rendered anymore. This happens both with browser visibility changes and also internally when using layout widgets such as Pager.

initialized

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Is fired when a widget is initialized.

press_cancel

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Is fired after press_start or press_delay and before a press_end was fired while the pointer is dragged outside of the button element.

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Name Type Description
event Event

Either the MouseEvent or the TouchEvent.

press_delayed

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Is fired after either a mousedown or a touchstart happened but delay is set so firing press_start will be delayed.

press_end

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Is fired after either a mouseup or a touchend happened and the pointer didn't leave the button element after press_start or press_delayed was fired.

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Name Type Description
event Event

Either the MouseEvent or the TouchEvent.

press_start

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Is fired after either a mousedown or a touchstart happened and delay is set to 0. If a delay is set, press_delayed is fired instead on mousedown/touchstart and this event gets fired as soon as the delay time is over.

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Name Type Description
event Event

Either the MouseEvent or the TouchEvent.

pressed

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Is fired if delay is set and the timeout has finished.

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Name Type Description
event Event

Either the MouseEvent or the TouchEvent.

redraw

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The redraw event is emitted when a widget is redrawn. This can be used to do additional DOM modifications to a Widget.

resize

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The resize event is emitted whenever a widget is being resized. This event can be used to e.g. measure its new size. Note that some widgets do internal adjustments after the resize event. If that is relevant, the Widget#resized event can be used instead.

resized

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The resized event is emitted after each rendering frame, which was triggered by a resize event.

set

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The set event is emitted when an option was set using the Widget#set method. The arguments are the option name and its new value.

Note that this happens both for user interaction and programmatical option changes.

show

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The show event is emitted when a widget is shown and is being rendered. This is the counterpart to Widget#hide.

visibility

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Is fired when the visibility state changes. The first argument is the visibility state, which is either true or false.