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Family.mui

Super class

Notify.mui

Inherited by

Background

Family class is the base class for objects that are able to handle a list of children. This is e.g. the case for MUIs Menustrip, Menu and Menuitem objects.

Family class defines methods and attributes to add and remove children, sort children, and transfer children to other Family objects.

Group class and application class should also be a subclass of Family class, but due to BOOPSI system limitations, this is currently impossible. If the future will allow more logical class trees, things might change, but everything will be done in a compatible manner.

Attributes

Attribute Version ISG Type
MUIA_Family_Child V8 I.. Object *
MUIA_Family_ChildCount V20 ..G LONG
MUIA_Family_List V8 ..G struct MinList *

Methods

Method Version
MUIM_Family_AddHead V8
MUIM_Family_AddTail V8
MUIM_Family_DoChildMethods V20
MUIM_Family_GetChild V20
MUIM_Family_Insert V8
MUIM_Family_Remove V8
MUIM_Family_Reorder V21
MUIM_Family_Sort V8
MUIM_Family_Transfer V8

MUIA_Family_Child

NAME

MUIA_Family_Child -- V8 [I..], Object *, 0x8042c696

FUNCTION

You supply a pointer to a previously created MUI object here. This object will be added to family at family creation time.

Of course you can specify any number of child objects, limited only by available memory.

Normally, the value for a MUIA_Family_Child tag is a direct call to another MUI_NewObject(), children are generated "on the fly".

When a family is disposed, all of its children will also get deleted. If you supply a NULL pointer as child, the family object will fail and previously dispose all valid children found in the taglist.

This behaviour makes it possible to generate a complete family within one single (but long) MUI_NewObject() call. Error checking is not necessary since every error, even if it occurs in a very deep nesting level, will cause the complete call to fail without leaving back any previously created object.

NOTES

As a special case, MUIA_Group_Child is also recognized and treated as MUIA_Family_Child.

SEE ALSO

MUIM_Family_AddTail, MUIM_Family_Insert, MUIM_Family_AddHead, MUIA_Family_Remove

MUIA_Family_ChildCount

NAME

MUIA_Family_ChildCount -- V20 [..G], LONG, 0x8042b25a

FUNCTION

Returns the number of family members of a family object.

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Family_Child

MUIA_Family_List

NAME

MUIA_Family_List -- V8 [..G], struct MinList *, 0x80424b9e

FUNCTION

Returns a pointer to a struct MinList which contains the children of a family object. You must parse this list with intuition.library/NextObject().

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Family_Child

MUIM_Family_AddHead

NAME

MUIM_Family_AddHead -- V8, 0x8042e200

SYNOPSIS

DoMethod(obj, MUIM_Family_AddHead, Object *obj);

FUNCTION

Add an object as first object to the family. Subclasses of Family class usually define which types of objects are possible within their family.

INPUTS

Object *obj the object to be added.

SEE ALSO

MUIM_Family_AddTail, MUIM_Family_Insert, MUIM_Family_Remove, MUIA_Family_Child

MUIM_Family_AddTail

NAME

MUIM_Family_AddTail -- V8, 0x8042d752

SYNOPSIS

DoMethod(obj, MUIM_Family_AddTail, Object *obj);

FUNCTION

Add an object as last object to the family. Subclasses of Family class usually define which types of objects are possible within their family.

This method does the same as OM_ADDMEMBER.

INPUTS

Object *obj the object to be added.

SEE ALSO

MUIM_Family_AddHead, MUIM_Family_Insert, MUIM_Family_Remove, MUIA_Family_Child

MUIM_Family_DoChildMethods

NAME

MUIM_Family_DoChildMethods -- V20, 0x80429a3c

SYNOPSIS

DoMethod(obj, MUIM_Family_DoChildMethods, /* ... */);

FUNCTION

Invoke a method on all children of a family.

INPUTS

... the destination method.

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Family_Child

MUIM_Family_GetChild

NAME

MUIM_Family_GetChild -- V20, 0x8042c556

SYNOPSIS

DoMethod(obj, MUIM_Family_GetChild, LONG nr, Object *ref);

FUNCTION

Obtain a child a family.

INPUTS

LONG nr number of the child to be returned.

Object *ref reference pointer from previous call.

Either use a valid index number or one of these special values:

MUIV_Family_GetChild_First Return the first child of the family.

MUIV_Family_GetChild_Last Return the last child of the family.

MUIV_Family_GetChild_Next Return the next child of the family in respect to the given reference child. Will fall back to the first child if the reference pointer is NULL.

MUIV_Family_GetChild_Previous Return the previous child of the family in respect to the given reference child. Will fall back to the last child if the reference pointer is NULL.

MUIV_Family_GetChild_Iterate Iterate over the list of children. The reference object must point to an array of 32bit entries of which the first entry carries the byte size of the whole array. Successive calls of MUIM_Family_GetChild will then return the single family childs.

EXAMPLE

Object *child;
/* obtain the first child a family */
child = (Object *)DoMethod(family, MUIM_Family_GetChild, MUIV_Family_GetChild_First);
/* obtain the forth child a family */
child = (Object *)DoMethod(family, MUIM_Family_GetChild, 3);
/* iterate over all children of a family */
LONG ref[20] = { sizeof(ref) };
for(child = NULL; (child = (Object *)DoMethod(family, MUIM_Family_GetChild, MUIV_Family_GetChild_Iterate, ref)) != NULL; )
{
  /* take care of the child */
}

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Family_Child

MUIM_Family_Insert

NAME

MUIM_Family_Insert -- V8, 0x80424d34

SYNOPSIS

DoMethod(obj, MUIM_Family_Insert, Object *obj, Object *pred);

FUNCTION

Add an object after another object to the family. Subclasses of Family class usually define which types of objects are possible within their family.

INPUTS

Object *obj the object to be added.

Object *pred the new object is inserted after this object. pred must of course be a member of the family.

SEE ALSO

MUIM_Family_AddTail, MUIM_Family_AddHead, MUIM_Family_Remove, MUIA_Family_Child

MUIM_Family_Remove

NAME

MUIM_Family_Remove -- V8, 0x8042f8a9

SYNOPSIS

DoMethod(obj, MUIM_Family_Remove, Object *obj);

FUNCTION

Remove an object from a family.

This method does the same as OM_REMMEMBER.

INPUTS

Object *obj the object to be removed.

SEE ALSO

MUIM_Family_AddTail, MUIM_Family_Insert, MUIM_Family_AddHead, MUIA_Family_Child

MUIM_Family_Reorder

NAME

MUIM_Family_Reorder -- V21, 0x80426008

SYNOPSIS

DoMethod(obj, MUIM_Family_Reorder, Object *after, Object *array[1]);

FUNCTION

Reorder the children of a family.

INPUTS

Object *after the object to reorder the children after. Special values are

  • 0: reorder the objects at the front of the Family object's child list
  • -1: reorder the objects at the end of the Family object's child list

Object *array[1] a NULL terminated array of objects to be reordered.

EXAMPLE

// move child1, child2 and child3 to the front
DoMethod(family, MUIM_Family_Reorder, NULL, child1, child2, child3, NULL);

SEE ALSO

MUIM_Family_Sort

MUIM_Family_Sort

NAME

MUIM_Family_Sort -- V8, 0x80421c49

SYNOPSIS

DoMethod(obj, MUIM_Family_Sort, Object *obj[1]);

FUNCTION

Sort the children of a family.

INPUTS

Object *obj[1] array that contains all the children of the family in the desired order. The array must be terminated with a NULL entry.

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Family_Child

MUIM_Family_Transfer

NAME

MUIM_Family_Transfer -- V8, 0x8042c14a

SYNOPSIS

DoMethod(obj, MUIM_Family_Transfer, Object *family);

FUNCTION

All the children of the family are removed and added to another family in the same order.

INPUTS

Object *family the destination family.

SEE ALSO

MUIA_Family_Child

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