Panel

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Panel

Employment/Purpose

Panel is a container that has specific functionality and structural components that make it the perfect building block for application-oriented user interfaces. The Panel contains bottom, top, and foot toolbars, along with separate header, footer and body sections. It also provides built-in collapsible, closable, maximizable, and minimizable behavior, along with a variety of pre-built tool buttons that can be wired up to provide other customized behavior. Panels can be easily embedded into any kind of ZUL component that is allowed to have children or layout component. Panels also provide specific features like float and move. Unlike Window, Panels can only be floated and moved inside its parent node, which is not using zk.setVParent() function at client side. In other words, if Panel's parent node is an relative position, the floated panel is only inside its parent, not the whole page. The second difference of Window is that Panel is not an independent ID space (by implementing IdSpace), so the ID of each child can be used throughout the panel.

Example

ZKComRef Panel Simple Examples.PNG

<panel height="100px" width="200px" style="margin-bottom:10px"
     title="Panel1" border="normal" maximizable="true"
     collapsible="true">
     <panelchildren>PanelContent1</panelchildren>
</panel>
<panel height="100px" width="200px" framable="true" title="Panel2"
     border="normal" maximizable="true" style="margin-bottom:10px">
     <panelchildren>PanelContent2</panelchildren>
</panel>

Java Example

Panel panel = new Panel();
panel.setTitle("Here is Title");
panel.setBorder("normal");
panel.setFramable(true);

Panelchildren pc = new Panelchildren();
pc.setParent(panel);
pc.appendChild(new Label("Here is Content"));

Properties

Sizable

The panel can now be resized so long as the attribute sizable is set to true. The example ZUL below shows a panel which can be resized and the image displays a panel which is in the process of being resized.

<panel sizable="true" id="panel" framable="true" width="500px" height="400px"
    title="Panel"
    maximizable="true" minimizable="true" border="normal"
    collapsible="true" closable="true">
    <panelchildren>
        <textbox width="100%" height="100%" />
    </panelchildren>
</panel>
[Since 5.0.0]

Draggable

When used with Portallayout, the draggable property (HtmlBasedComponent.setDraggable(String)) can be used to control whether the panel is draggable under the portal layout.

<portallayout>
   <portalchildren style="padding: 5px" width="30%">
      <panel height="150px" title="Google Tools" border="normal"
           collapsible="true" closable="true" maximizable="true"
           style="margin-bottom:10px">
         <panelchildren>
 
         </panelchildren>
      </panel>
      <panel height="300px" title="LabPixies Clock" border="normal"
           collapsible="true" closable="true" maximizable="true"
           style="margin-bottom:10px"
           draggable="false">
          <panelchildren>
             This is not draggable. 
          </panelchildren>
      </panel>
   </portalchildren>
</portallayout>
[Since 5.0.3]

Border

It specifies whether to display the border. Currently, it supports none, normal, rounded and rounded+. The default is none, i.e., no border.

Here is the effect with different borders:

DrPanelBorder.png


Backward Compatibility: ZK 5.0.5 and prior shall use the combination of the border and framable property as follows.

Border in 5.0.6 The equivalent combination in 5.0.5 and prior Description
border="none" border="none" framable is default to false
border="normal" border="normal" framable is default to false
border="rounded" framable="true" border is default to none
border="rounded+" border="normal" framable="true"
  • Notice that the use of the border and framable combiation still works in 5.0.6 (backward compatible).

Title

Besides this attribute, you could use Caption to define a more sophisticated caption (aka., title). If the panel has a caption whose label Caption.getLabel() is not empty, then this attribute is ignored. (Default: empty).

Closable

Specify the panel whether to show a close button on the title bar or not. If closable, a button is displayed and the onClose event (OpenEvent) is sent if a user clicks the button. (Default: false)

Supported Events

Name
Event Type
onMove
Event: MoveEvent

Denotes the position of the window is moved by a user.

onOpen
Event: OpenEvent

Denotes user has opened or closed a component.

Note:

Unlike onClose, this event is only a notification. The

client sends this event after opening or closing the

component.

It is useful to implement load-on-demand by listening to

the onOpen event, and creating components when the

first time the component is opened.

onMaximize
Event: MaximizeEvent

Denotes user has maximize a component.

onMinimize
Event: MinimizeEvent

Denotes user has minimize a component.

onClose
Event: OpenEvent

Denotes the close button is pressed by a user, and the

component shall detach itself.


onSize
Event: SizeEvent

Denotes the panel's size is updated by a user.

onZIndex
Event: ZIndexEvent

Denotes the panel's zindex is updated by a user.

Supported Children

* Panelchildren

Use Cases

Version Description Example Location
5.0 Portallayout, panels and events http://www.zkoss.org/forum/listComment/10765

Version History

Last Update : 2011/01/19


Version Date Content
5.0.3 July, 2010 The draggable property can be used to control the drag-ability in a portal layout. 5.0.6 January, 2010 The framable property was deprecated. Please refer to #Border for details.



Last Update : 2011/01/19

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