Thank you, Renaud, for explaining that. I am so glad to see that Pharo has
addressed this and made it so simple. I've seen too many UIs that fail on
this kind of thing.
Kudos to those people who created this. You nailed it!
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 18:31 Renaud de Villemeur <renaud.devillem...@free.fr>
wrote:
> Hi Steve.
>
> This is not at all a naive question. This is partly showned in the advance
> part of spec, and as it said: "ListModel can show more than just text, it
> can also visualize any kind of widget."
>
> Here is how you could do a static list of checkBox:
> In your initializeWidget method, create your checkbox:
>
> item1 := self newCheckBox label: 'label1'; help: 'help1'; yourself.
> item2 := self newCheckBox label: 'label2; help: 'help2'; yourself.
> item3 := self newCheckBox label: 'label3'; help: 'help3'; yourself.
>
> You can then create and display your list:
>
> projectList := (self instantiate: ListPresenter)
> displayBlock: [ :x | x buildWithSpec ];
> items: {item1 . item2 . item3};
> yourself.
>
>
> And your defaultSpec can be as simple as:
>
> defaultSpec [
> ^ SpecLayout composed
> add: #projectList;
> yourself
> ]
>
> Hope this helps.
> Renaud
>
>
> Le sam. 24 août 2019 à 14:53, Steve Quezadas <steve...@gmail.com> a
> écrit :
>
>> Guys,
>>
>> I am learning this new "spec" thing. I created a simple Spec "list"
>> object with the following code:
>> arbitraryList := ListPresenter new.
>> arbitraryList
>> items: #('one' 'two' 'three' 'four. . .');
>> title: 'Arbitrary list'.
>> arbitraryList openWithSpec.
>>
>> Which creates a simple list like follows:
>> https://steverstuff.s3.amazonaws.com/arbitrary_list.png
>>
>> Is there any way to make a SpecPresenter object with an arbitrary list of
>> checkboxes? Kind of like a check-off list?
>>
>> What is the best way of doing this? Should I put checkbox objects in the
>> "items:" selector? Or is there another way to do it?
>>
>> Please forgive the naive question.
>>
>
