Part III. Fundamental Concepts

Table of Contents

15. Program Structure

1. The canvas tag

2. The <include> tag for compiled-in libraries

3. The <library> tag

4. The <import> tag for runtime includes

5. Deleting Imported Libraries

6. Conditional Compilation of Runtime-Dependent code

7. Debugging

8. Resources, Fonts, and Datasources

9. Accessibility

16. Getting More from Components

1. Customizing components

2. Data-backed versus instance components

3. Building your own components

17. Layout and Design

1. Declarative positioning of views using layouts

2. Horizontal and Vertical Boxes

3. Variations on Layout

4. Design considerations in LZX programs

5. Scripting and Layouts

6. Animating layout

7. Writing Custom Layouts

18. Media Resources

1. Overview

2. Supported media types

3. Views and resources

4. Multi-frame resources

5. Resource loading

6. Using the <image> tag

19. Cascading Style Sheets

1. Overview

2. Simple Views

3. <boxmodel>

4. Selectors

5. A Nested View

6. Dynamically-Created Views

7. Dynamic CSS

8. Specificity

20. Color

1. Overview

2. RGB or Red, Green, Blue

3. Different Ways to Specify Color

21. Text Views

1. Summary of properties

2. Text as attribute and text as object

3. Text width and height

4. The <text> View

5. The <inputtext> View

22. Rich Text

1. <rte>: Rich Text Editor

23. Fonts

1. What is a font?

2. OpenLaszlo "pseudo-pixel" fonts

3. Syntax

4. Using fonts

5. DHTML Font design considerations

6. Performance considerations

24. Animation

1. Introduction

2. Absolute vs. relative animation

3. Using the from attribute

4. Using the motion attribute

5. Tags vs Script

6. Using the indirect attribute

7. Animator Groups

8. Animating Layout

9. Everything Animates

10. Animation with Multi-frame Resources