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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
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Showing content in a view</title>
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    <h1 class="topictitle1">
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Showing content in a view</h1>
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            The WRTKit has two controls for showing content inside a view. The 
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            first of the controls is called Label and is useful for simple and 
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            short information to be displayed, coupled with the control caption 
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            that describes the information.
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        </p>
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        <div class="fignone" id="GUID-7020D9EA-747D-42F3-B47C-16AD1F45DB82__GUID-EB15E9F3-204F-4772-B820-F3375D4C040A"><a name="GUID-7020D9EA-747D-42F3-B47C-16AD1F45DB82__GUID-EB15E9F3-204F-4772-B820-F3375D4C040A"><!-- --></a><span class="figcap">Figure 1. 
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Label control</span>
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            <br /><img src="Label_Control_Screenshot_1.png" /><br />
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        </div>
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            The second control is called ContentPanel and is more sophisticated 
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            than the Label control. ContentPanel controls can be created as 
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            foldable, which means that they can expand and collapse their 
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            content areas. Users can toggle the expanded and collapsed state by 
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            clicking on the caption area of the ContentPanel.
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        </p>
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        <div class="fignone" id="GUID-7020D9EA-747D-42F3-B47C-16AD1F45DB82__GUID-5EC096E5-EADF-4BD6-9D6A-1B331EAA2E66"><a name="GUID-7020D9EA-747D-42F3-B47C-16AD1F45DB82__GUID-5EC096E5-EADF-4BD6-9D6A-1B331EAA2E66"><!-- --></a><span class="figcap">Figure 2. 
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Foldable content panel</span>
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            <br /><img src="RSS_Reader_Main_Screenshot_2.png" /><br />
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        </div>
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            The code below creates a Label control and a foldable ContentPanel 
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            control and adds them to a view. The code assumes that a view has 
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            already been created and that a variable called exampleView refers 
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            to it.
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// create label
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var nameLabel = new Label("label1", "Name");
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exampleView.addControl(nameLabel);
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// create foldable content panel
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var infoPanel = new ContentPanel("info1", "Information", null, true);
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exampleView.addControl(infoPanel);
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            The first and second arguments are the same in the constructors for 
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            both controls. The first is a unique identifier for the control and 
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            the second is the control caption. The third argument is also the 
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            same but is omitted for the label and null for the content panel 
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            since in both cases we don't specify any content at this point. The 
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            fourth argument for the content panel is a boolean that specifies 
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            whether the control should be foldable or not.
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            The value for a label can be set and retrieved using the getText() and
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            setText() methods. For content panels the content in the content area
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            can be set and retrieved using getContent() and setContent(). The
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            content is defined as an XHTML fragment and can contain arbitrarily
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            complex XHTML, including images or even JavaScript.
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// set the text for the label
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nameLabel.setText("John Smith");
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// set content for the content panel
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infoPanel.setContent("&lt;b&gt;This is bolded!&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;This is plain text on the second line.");
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            Foldable ContentPanel controls can be programmatically collapsed or
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            expanded using the setExpanded() method. The expanded state can be
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            retrieved using the isExpanded() method.
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// retrieve the expanded state
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var expanded = infoPanel.isExpanded();
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// collapse the content panel
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infoPanel.setExpanded(false);
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="WRTKit_Common_WRTKit_tasks-GUID-24870895-4449-4307-9a54-7c90f7b3905e.html">Common WRTKit tasks</a></div>
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