Inside Macintosh: Cyberdog Programmer's Kit / Part 3 - Cyberdog Reference

Chapter 7 - Classes and Methods

CyberContainerExtension

Superclasses

CyberExtension --> ODExtension --> ODRefCntObject --> ODObject

Subclasses

none

The CyberContainerExtension class defines extra behaviors for parts that will act as dialog box containers and embed other parts as panels.

Description

The CyberContainerExtension class is an abstract class you can subclass to create an extension that allows a part to behave as a dialog box that embeds other parts as panels. For example, the Cyberdog Connect To and Preferences dialog boxes use embedded panels. The panels to be embedded are parts that are extended by subclasses of the CyberPanelExtension class (page 277).

Note

The Cyberdog Connect To dialog box has an additional extension, subclassed from CyberItemPromptExtension, which provides the Cyberdog item specified by the user in the Connect To dialog box. u

The Cyberdog Connect To and Preferences dialog boxes are fully implemented. If you add a new service to Cyberdog, you need to subclass the panel extension classes CyberConnectExtension and CyberPrefsExtension to handle the connection information and preferences for the new service. However, you do not need to subclass CyberContainerExtension unless you want to create your own custom dialog box container for panel parts.

Methods

This section presents summary descriptions of the CyberContainerExtension methods grouped according to purpose, followed by detailed descriptions.

Enabling Buttons

EnableOKButton

Enables or disables the OK button in this dialog box container.

Closing

FlashCancelButton

Highlights the Cancel button in this dialog box container and closes the container.

FlashOKButton

Highlights the OK button in this dialog box container and closes the container.

Acquiring and Losing Focus

TabIn

Notifies this dialog box container that it has received the keyboard focus.

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Methods

EnableOKButton

FlashCancelButton

FlashOKButton

TabIn