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authorxue <>2006-05-04 19:57:16 +0000
committerxue <>2006-05-04 19:57:16 +0000
commit05b69a565ebf001f42fdb6558f204bf3f1a9b61a (patch)
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Added TCompositeControl.
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-rw-r--r--demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/NewControl.page6
-rw-r--r--demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/Samples/LabeledTextBox2/LabeledTextBox.php2
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/NewControl.page b/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/NewControl.page
index 61209b6b..51d0cc02 100644
--- a/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/NewControl.page
+++ b/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/NewControl.page
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ In general, there are two ways of writing new controls: composition of existing
Composition is the easiest way of creating new controls. It mainly involves instantiating existing controls, configuring them and making them the constituent components. The properties of the constituent components are exposed through <a href="?page=Fundamentals.Components">subproperties</a>.
</p>
<p>
-One can compose a new control in two ways. One is to override the <tt>TControl::createChildControls()</tt> method. The other is to extend <tt>TTemplateControl</tt> (or its child classes) and write a control template. The latter is easier to use and can organize the layout constituent compoents more intuitively, while the former is more efficient because it does not require parsing of the template.
+One can compose a new control in two ways. One is to extend <tt>TCompositeControl</tt> and override the <tt>TControl::createChildControls()</tt> method. The other is to extend <tt>TTemplateControl</tt> (or its child classes) and write a control template. The latter is easier to use and can organize the layout constituent compoents more intuitively, while the former is more efficient because it does not require parsing of the template.
</p>
<p>
As an example, we show how to create a labeled textbox called <tt>LabeledTextBox</tt> using the above two approaches. A labeled textbox displays a label besides a textbox. We want reuse the PRADO provided <tt>TLabel</tt> and <tt>TTextBox</tt> to accomplish this task.
@@ -48,13 +48,13 @@ In the above, the method call to <tt>ensureChildControls()</tt> ensures that bot
<h3>Composition by Overriding <tt>createChildControls()</tt></h3>
<p>
-For a composite control as simple as <tt>LabeledTextBox</tt>, it is better to create it by extending <tt>TControl</tt> and overriding the <tt>createChildControls()</tt> method, because it does not use templates and thus saves template parsing time. Note, the new control class must implement the <tt>INamingContainer</tt> interface to ensure the global uniqueness of the ID of its constituent controls.
+For a composite control as simple as <tt>LabeledTextBox</tt>, it is better to create it by extending <tt>TCompositeControl</tt> and overriding the <tt>createChildControls()</tt> method, because it does not use templates and thus saves template parsing time.
</p>
<p>
Complete code for <tt>LabeledTextBox</tt> is shown as follows,
</p>
<com:TTextHighlighter CssClass="source">
-class LabeledTextBox extends TControl implements INamingContainer {
+class LabeledTextBox extends TCompositeControl {
private $_label;
private $_textbox;
protected function createChildControls() {
diff --git a/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/Samples/LabeledTextBox2/LabeledTextBox.php b/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/Samples/LabeledTextBox2/LabeledTextBox.php
index 4b8ac2c2..5bbf4ce2 100644
--- a/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/Samples/LabeledTextBox2/LabeledTextBox.php
+++ b/demos/quickstart/protected/pages/Controls/Samples/LabeledTextBox2/LabeledTextBox.php
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?php
-class LabeledTextBox extends TControl implements INamingContainer
+class LabeledTextBox extends TCompositeControl
{
private $_label;
private $_textbox;