Chapter 4. TEMPLATES

Topics in this Chapter

  • Encapsulating Layout

  • Optional Content

  • Role-based Content

  • Defining Regions Separately

  • Nesting Regions

  • Extending Regions

  • Combining Features

  • Region Tag Implementations

  • Conclusion

Window toolkits typically provide three types of objects that greatly facilitate the implementation of flexible, extensible, and reusable applications: components, containers, and layout managers. Components are graphic objects such as buttons, menus, or lists, and containers are groups of components. Layout managers position and size a container's components.[1]

Components, containers, and layout managers are typically implemented with two design patterns: Composite and Strategy.[2] The Composite design pattern, used to implement components ...

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