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<document id="checkboxes">
<properties>
<title>Checkboxes</title>
</properties>
<body>
<p>
The following example demonstrates how to use the <tt>Checkbox</tt> class in a Pivot
application. Selecting a checkbox shows or hides an associated icon:
</p>
<application class="org.apache.pivot.wtk.ScriptApplication"
width="140" height="100">
<libraries>
<library>core</library>
<library>wtk</library>
<library>wtk-terra</library>
<library>tutorials</library>
</libraries>
<startup-properties>
<src>/org/apache/pivot/tutorials/buttons/checkboxes.bxml</src>
</startup-properties>
</application>
<p>
The BXML source for the example is below:
</p>
<source type="xml" location="org/apache/pivot/tutorials/buttons/checkboxes.bxml">
<![CDATA[
<Window title="Checkboxes" maximized="true"
xmlns:bxml="http://pivot.apache.org/bxml"
xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk">
<TablePane styles="{showHorizontalGridLines: true, showVerticalGridLines:true,
padding:4, horizontalSpacing:1, verticalSpacing:1,
horizontalGridColor:10, verticalGridColor:10}">
<columns>
<TablePane.Column width="-1"/>
<TablePane.Column width="24"/>
</columns>
<TablePane.Row height="24">
<BoxPane styles="{verticalAlignment:'center'}">
<Checkbox buttonData="Bell"
ButtonPressListener.buttonPressed="bellImageView.setVisible(!bellImageView.isVisible());"/>
</BoxPane>
<ImageView bxml:id="bellImageView" image="/org/apache/pivot/tutorials/bell.png" visible="false"/>
</TablePane.Row>
<TablePane.Row height="24">
<BoxPane styles="{verticalAlignment:'center'}">
<Checkbox buttonData="Clock"
ButtonPressListener.buttonPressed="clockImageView.setVisible(!clockImageView.isVisible());"/>
</BoxPane>
<ImageView bxml:id="clockImageView" image="/org/apache/pivot/tutorials/clock.png" visible="false"/>
</TablePane.Row>
<TablePane.Row height="24">
<BoxPane styles="{verticalAlignment:'center'}">
<Checkbox buttonData="House"
ButtonPressListener.buttonPressed="houseImageView.setVisible(!houseImageView.isVisible());"/>
</BoxPane>
<ImageView bxml:id="houseImageView" image="/org/apache/pivot/tutorials/house.png" visible="false"/>
</TablePane.Row>
</TablePane>
</Window>
]]>
</source>
<p>
Note that this example uses the <tt>TablePane</tt> layout container. <tt>TablePane</tt>
defines a two-dimensional grid structure and is similar to an HTML table. It is
discussed in more detail in the <a href="layout-containers.html">Layout Containers</a>
section.
</p>
<p>
Also note the use of script code to respond to button press events fired by the
checkboxes. The <tt>ButtonPressListener.buttonPressed</tt> attribute of each component
contains JavaScript code that toggles the visibility of the corresponding image view,
causing the image to appear and disappear based on the checkbox's selection state.
It is common in Pivot development to implement simple event handlers in script code
this way, since it can often be much less verbose than performing the same logic in Java.
</p>
<p>
In fact, since all of the logic for this application is implemented in script, there
is no Java source associated with this example.
</p>
</body>
</document>