Components

DomUI applications are built from components: Java objects that render themselves as HTML and handle their own events. This section documents the components DomUI provides, and the rules for writing your own.

The components are grouped by what they are for. Each group page describes the group and its members; each member has a page of its own with its properties and methods, and a demo page showing it working.

• Text and value input - Text2, TextArea, DateInput2 and the colour pickers.
• Forms - not a component: the FormBuilder that lays controls out as labelled rows and binds them to properties.
• Choice input - Checkbox, RadioGroup, ComboFixed2, ComboLookup2 and EnumSetInput.
• Lookup and search - LookupInput2, SearchInput2, SearchAsYouType and the SearchPanel.
• Buttons and actions - DefaultButton, LinkButton, SmallImgButton, HoverButton, the two toggle buttons, IUIAction and ButtonBar2.
• Display-only components - DisplaySpan, DisplayControl, the boolean displays, DisplayHtml and the ruler.
• Tables, lists and trees - DataTable, the row renderer, the table models, the other table shapes and Tree3.
• Layout and page structure - the panels, the headers, the tab panels, the splitter and ChildFragment.
• Windows, dialogs and messages - Window, Dialog, InputDialog, MsgBox2, ExceptionDialog and the components that show a message on the page.
• Navigation and menus - BreadCrumb2, AppPageTitleBar, ALink and the two menus.
• Images, icons and file upload - IIconRef and the three kinds of icon, Img, the two image controls and the two upload controls.
• Rich content editors - HtmlEditor, CKEditor and the AceEditor.
• Charts - PlotlyGraph, its traces and its layout.
• Diagrams - MaxGraphPanel, the model it draws, and what the user may do to it.
• Asynchronous and long-running work - AsyncContainer, AsyncDiv and PollingDiv.
• Agenda and calendar - WeekAgendaComponent, MonthPanel and the schedule model behind them.
• Drag and drop - not a component: the two handlers that make any node draggable or a drop zone.
• Component rules - the CSS and implementation rules every DomUI component follows.

The page a component lives on is described separately, in The body document (UrlPage).

Still to be written

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