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author Eugene Ostroukhov <eugeneo@symbian.org>
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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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<html lang="en" xml:lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
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<meta name="copyright" content="(C) Copyright 2005" />
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<meta name="DC.rights.owner" content="(C) Copyright 2005" />
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<meta content="concept" name="DC.Type" />
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<meta name="DC.Title" content="Displaying content" />
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<meta scheme="URI" name="DC.Relation" content="WRTKit_Developing_widgets_using_the_WRTKit-GUID-a321db96-0a01-4e55-b24b-96905f40cb5c.html" />
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<meta content="XHTML" name="DC.Format" />
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<meta content="GUID-57647864-5231-47E5-8AD5-F2ADB1848760" name="DC.Identifier" />
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<meta content="en" name="DC.Language" />
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<link href="commonltr.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
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<title>
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Displaying content</title>
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</head>
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<body id="GUID-57647864-5231-47E5-8AD5-F2ADB1848760"><a name="GUID-57647864-5231-47E5-8AD5-F2ADB1848760"><!-- --></a>
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    <h1 class="topictitle1">
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Displaying content</h1>
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    <div>
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        <p>
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            The WRTKit contains two controls that are intended simply for displaying content 
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            of some kind. The simplest of these is the Label control, which is simply 
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            showing a piece of text below its caption. Labels are useful in situations where 
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            there is some short data that needs to be shown without requiring any kind of 
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            interactivity. E.g. in an address book widget, each information field for a 
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            contact could be shown using its own label. One label for the contact's name, 
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            one for the phone number, etc. The control caption would indicate what the 
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            information is (e.g. "Name") and the label's value would indicate the actual
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            piece of data (e.g. "John Smith").
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        </p>
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        <p>
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            For situations where the content is more complex or longer, the WRTKit offers a 
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            control called ContentPanel. The ContentPanel control can be foldable or non-
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            foldable. In its non-foldable mode a ContentPanel is similar to the label 
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            control and shows a caption and a content area. In the foldable mode the caption 
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            area is interactive and can be used to collapse and expand the content area. 
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            This helps shortening the space that the content takes up on in a view, while 
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            still allowing users to expand interesting content for a closer look. E.g. an 
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            email reader widget could use this to show each email in a folder in its own 
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            content panel so that the control caption is the email subject and the content 
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            area contains the full email.
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        </p>
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        <div class="fignone" id="GUID-57647864-5231-47E5-8AD5-F2ADB1848760__GUID-741DA525-1982-4CCE-9D99-926B6719716F"><a name="GUID-57647864-5231-47E5-8AD5-F2ADB1848760__GUID-741DA525-1982-4CCE-9D99-926B6719716F"><!-- --></a><span class="figcap">Figure 1. 
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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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        <p>
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            Foldable ContentPanel controls can be created either in expanded or collapsed 
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            mode and can be programmatically expanded and collapsed in addition to allowing 
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            users to manually expand and collapse them.
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        </p>
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        <p>
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            If a non-folding ContentPanel control is used without a caption, it is for all 
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            practical purposes just a canvas to which any content can be inserted. The 
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            content in the content panel area is defined as an XHTML fragment and can be used 
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            to include arbitrarily complex content, e.g. content that contains images, 
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            JavaScript code, etc.
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        </p>
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    </div>
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<div>
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<div class="familylinks">
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<div class="parentlink"><strong>Parent topic:</strong> <a href="WRTKit_Developing_widgets_using_the_WRTKit-GUID-a321db96-0a01-4e55-b24b-96905f40cb5c.html">Developing widgets using the WRTKit</a></div>
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</div>
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</div>
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</body>
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</html>