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Zinc - objects and widget set
The Zinc widgets that make up the set of user interface objects can be classified
into a number of different categories. These categories include:
- Windows and Dialogs
- Decoration and Presentation
- Selection
- Input
- Menus
- List
- Control
- Compound
All Zinc visual objects are derived from the base Window object class ZafWindowObject.
This basic window object class provides many of the base interface characteristics
for objects including event handling for drag and drop operations, moving, resizing,
control over focus, foreground and background colors, and overriding of drawing
operations. The strength of the Zinc architecture is that custom user interface
classes can be derived from ZafWindowObject or from any other Zinc widget.
This allows application developers to rapidly create a customized application that
is unique in appearance and behavior.
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Zinc provides a variety of different Window types from which applications can be
built. These include standard windows, modal windows, Multi-Document Interface (MDI)
windows, and a number of predefined window types to support operations such as file,
printer, and Unicode string editing.
- ZafWindow
- ZafDialogWindow
- ZafMessageWindow
- ZafMDIWindow
- ZafScrolledWindow
- ZafFileDialog
- ZafPrintDialog
- ZafStringEditor
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Zinc provides a full set of predefined interface objects that provides visual decorations
for windows and manages the presentation. These include decoration elements for
windows such as borders, system menu, minimize and maximize buttons, window titles.
Zinc includes objects for groups, splitters, status bars, and toolbars to provide
allow easy control over the visual layout of other window objects. To present text,
images, and status of operations, Zinc provides for the display of prompts, images,
and progress bar.
- ZafBorder
- ZafSystemButton
- ZafMaximizeButton
- ZafMinimizeButton
- ZafTitle
- ZafGroup
- ZafSplitter
- ZafStatusBar
- ZafToolBar
- ZafPrompt
- ZafImage
- ZafProgressBar
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To allow user interactions, Zinc provides a variety of interface selection objects.
The Zinc button class provides a number of different variations to include standard
button, radio, checkbox, flat, 3D, and toolbar. The icon class allows for the visual
presentation of both an image and associated text from which the user can select.
Two types of menu selections are provided with Zinc, pull-down and pop-up.
- ZafButton
- ZafIcon
- ZafPullDownItem
- ZafPopUpItem
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Zinc comes complete with a full suite of input objects to manage the input of a
variety of information including strings, custom formatted strings, numbers, dates,
time, real numbers, and even a multiple line text control.
- ZafString
- ZafFormattedString
- ZafBignum
- ZafDate
- ZafInteger
- ZafReal
- ZafTime
- ZafUTime
- ZafText
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Zinc comes with the ability to build complete menu structures for both popup and
pull-down menu systems.
- ZafPopUpMenu
- ZafPullDownMenu
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Zinc provides a number of list control objects including combo box where the user
can select from a drop down list of elements. Horizontal and vertical controls which
are used to manage the display of elements in an organized presentation widget are
also available.
- ZafComboBox
- ZafHzList
- ZafVtList
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Zinc also provides a number of interface control widgets to aid in the manipulating
of information and presentation position, these include a spin control and scrollbar
that can also be formatted as a slider.
- ZafSpinControl
- ZafScrollBar
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Zinc provides a number of objects for complex information presentation. The notebook
control allows the presentation of many pages of information in a limited space.
This control is ideal for both the desktop and embedded systems in which the screen
space is limited. To display tables of information in a row oriented format, use
the table widget that allows the placement of column headers. To display complex
hierarchy structures use the tree control to present information such as a file
structure.
- ZafNotebook
- ZafTable
- ZafTableHeader
- ZafTableRecord
- ZafTreeList
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