Control Element

Group membership: Controls

The mother of all controls. This element adds a new control to the parent container, using the currently defined constraints.

When JGB encounters this element, it will add the newly instantiated control to the parent element. JGB will try to find a method like add(Component, Object) in the parent objects. This method is defined in the Container class.

Attributes

Name	Type	Required	Description
class	CDATA	No	A fully qualified class name that extends Component. This class must have a public, no-arg constructor for it to be instantiated.
id	ID	No	Identifies the name by which this control will be referenced by other parts of the JGB XML file or Java code.
refaction	IDREF	No	More information forthcoming
reflabel	IDREF	No	Identifies a control that prompts this one.

Example usage

…
<label id="controlLabel"/>
<control id="customListBox" class="com.mycompany.gui.CustomListBox"
            reflabel="controlLabel">
    …
</control>
…

Parent element(s)

controls, control, panel, tab.

Child element(s)

border, button, check, combo, constraints, control, glue, label, layout, list, methodCall, panel, property, radio, register, sheet, strut, table, textfield.