Part IV. In Depth

Table of Contents

25. Proxied and SOLO Applications

1. Review of deployment modes

2. Proxied or SOLO? Your call

3. Workflow

4. Examples

5. Moving from Proxied Development to SOLO Deployment

6. Creating your own Proxy

26. Views

1. Fundamental Properties

2. The View Coordinate system

3. Positioning of Views

4. View Hierarchy

5. Views and Nodes

6. How views are built

7. Distinguishing features of OpenLaszlo's Coordinate System

27. Constraints

1. Constraints defined

2. Syntax for creating and removing constraints

3. Constraints in action

4. Events and Dependencies

5. Multiple Dependencies

6. Circular Constraints

7. Performance Considerations

8. Constraints and Functions

28. Classes

1. Overview

2. Summary of Class syntax

3. Constraints in class definitions

4. Creating objects from script

5. A Prototype-based language

29. Methods, Events, Handlers, and Attributes

1. Overview

2. Methods

3. Events

4. Event Handlers

5. Introduction to attributes

6. The <attribute> tag

30. Delegates

1. Overview

2. Delegates and Memory Management

3. Using a lz.Timer to show the passage of time

4. Using lz.Delegate to determine initialization of the last replicated view

5. Delegates as attributes

6. Delegates in relation to other languages

31. Input Devices and Gestures

1. Overview

2. The Mouse

3. Tracking the Mouse

4. "View Source" right click menu item

5. Keyboard Input

32. States

1. Overview

2. States vs Procedures

33. Extending Classes

1. Overview

2. Overriding methods, handlers and attributes

3. Classroot

4. <mixin>s

5. Declared text

6. Font inheritance

7. Instantiating classes through script

8. Mapping Class and Tag Names

9. Using LZX classes

10. Glossary

34. Designing Custom Components

1. Base components and LZ components

2. Deciding what base component to subclass

3. Writing the slider component

4. Component auto-include

35. Browser Integration

1. Using the Developer Toolbar

2. A model of Browser/LZX application interaction

3. The lz.embed Class

4. Placing the LZX application in the HTML page

5. Integrating with Frames

6. Passing startup Data to Embedded Applications

7. Using the browser's "back" button

8. Scaling OpenLaszlo Applications to Browser Dimensions

9. Browser Limitations