Using Gadgets

• Objective
• How to instantiate a gadget
  • Inserting a visual gadget - Gadgets.Insert
  • Linking a model gadget to a gadget - Gadgets.Link
  • Inserting a visual + model gadget pair
• The gadget attributes
  • The Gen attribute
  • The Name attribute
  • Name scope
  • The Cmd attribute
  • The ConsumeCmd attribute
  • The Color attribute
  • The GridSnap attribute
  • The Locked attribute
• The visual gadget collection
  • Button
  • Calendar
  • Caption
  • CheckBox
  • Circle
  • Clock
  • ColorPicker
  • DigitalClock
  • Finder
  • Icon
  • Iconizer
  • Line
  • List
  • NamePlate
  • Navigator
  • NoteBook
  • Organizer
  • Outline
  • Panel
  • PanelDoc
  • ProgressMeter
  • Rectangle
  • Rectangle3D
  • RefFrame
  • Scope
  • RembrandtDoc
  • RembrandtFrame
  • ScrollView
  • SetFrame
  • Sisiphus
  • Slider
  • Spline
  • TextDoc
  • TextField
  • TextGadget
  • TextHyperlink
  • TextNote
  • TextStyle
  • TimeStamp
  • View
• The model gadget collection
  • Boolean
  • Complex
  • CurrentDirectory
  • CurrentLoad
  • Event timer
  • Integer
  • MemoryUsed
  • Picture
  • Real
  • Reference
  • Set
  • String
  • Text
• The Gadgets module
  • How to copy gadgets - Gadgets.Copy
  • Using model gadgets
  • Changing the type of a visual gadget - Gadgets.Change
  • Setting an attribute value - Gadgets.Set
  • Setting an attribute - Gadgets.ChangeAttr
• Macros
  • Lookup macro &
  • Activator macro #
  • Initiator macro !
  • Selection macro ^
  • Processor macros {, }, |
  • String concatenation
• Interactive composition of gadgets
  • A simple composition exercise
    • Creating a panel
    • Adapting the panel
    • Storing the finalized panel and using it
  • A gadgets composition tool
    • Aliases
• What's next?