containers
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containers

<container>
  <type>grid</type>
  <name>bottom-container</name>
</container>

<!-- ... -->

<layout type="grid" id="bottom-container">

  <creator>bottom-container-creator</creator>

<!-- ... -->

</layout>



/* ----- */

x::w::uielements elements;

elements.layout_creators.emplace("bottom-container-creator",
                                 []
                                 (const x::w::gridlayoutmanager &layoutmanager)
                                 {
                                      // ...
                                 });
layout_manager->generate("dialog", generators, elements);

x::w::container bottom_container=elements.get_element("bottom-container");

x::w::gridlayoutmanager bottom_container_lm=elements.get_layoutmanager("bottom-container");

A container creates a new container widget. Its name serves a dual purpose:

container creates a container and then generate()s the new container from another layout in the theme file, whose id is name. type must be one of the supported layout types, and must match the layout's type.

container is equivalent to invoking a name-d element callback, and having the callback create a new container with the appropriate layout manager, and then generate()ing its contents from the layout specified by the name value (which serves the same dual purpose as the element element).

Note

The named layout must exist in the theme file, even if nothing needs to be generated in the new container, it gets created with no initial contents.

The layout is empty, in this case.

A container element also has other optional values that depend on its type that initialize the container.

Common elements to all layouts

An optional creator value specifies a creator callback in x::w::uielements's layout_creators map. The callback receives two parameters: the new container object and the new layout manager object. The creators gets invoked from the new container's creator lambda, as part of generate()ing the new container's contents from the specified layout.

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