Antun’s Blog

For a long time, I’ve wondered why the OpenLaszlo selectionmanager has such a bizarre API for enabling/disabling range- and multi-selection.  A quick introduction: the selectionmanager is a helper class that manages selection between a group of views. It’s very handy for building custom lists. Range-selection means shift-clicking to select a group of items. Multi-selection means [...]

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Whether you realize it or not, you often use a subclass of the basevaluecomponent in OpenLaszlo. A typical example is radiobutton (which is used with radiogroup). The example for radiogroup in the OpenLaszlo reference is pretty simple:

<canvas debug="true">
<radiogroup id="group1">
<radiobutton value="1" text="one"/>
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