AppearanceController Members
A ViewController descendant that applies conditional appearance rules to specified UI elements.Constructors
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| AppearanceController() | Creates an instance of the AppearanceController class. |
Fields
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| AppearanceActionType static | For internal use. |
| AppearanceContextAny static | For internal use. |
| AppearanceContextDetailView static | For internal use. |
| AppearanceContextListView static | For internal use. |
| AppearanceLayoutItemType static | For internal use. |
| AppearanceViewItemType static | For internal use. |
| ControllerActiveKey static | Specifies one of the keys from the ActionBase.Active collection of a Controller‘s Controller.Actions. By default, this field value is “Controller active”. You can use this field when working with the ActionBase.Active collection. Inherited from Controller. |
| ViewIsAssignedReason static | Specifies the Controller.Active list’s reason that indicates whether a View is assigned to the current ViewController. Inherited from ViewController. |
Properties
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Actions | Provides access to a Controller‘s Action collection. Inherited from Controller. |
| Active | Provides access to a collection of reason/value pairs used to activate or deactivate a Controller, or determine its active state. Inherited from Controller. |
| Application | Provides access to an XafApplication object that can be used to manage the current application. Inherited from Controller. |
| CanRaiseEvents protected | Gets a value indicating whether the component can raise an event. Inherited from Component. |
| Container | Gets the IContainer that contains the Component. Inherited from Component. |
| DesignMode protected | Gets a value that indicates whether the Component is currently in design mode. Inherited from Component. |
| Events protected | Gets the list of event handlers that are attached to this Component. Inherited from Component. |
| Frame | Provides access to a Controller‘s Frame. Inherited from Controller. |
| IsInRefresh | Indicates whether or not the AppearanceController.Refresh method is currently being executed. |
| LockCount | Gets the number of Appearance Controller updates that are currently in progress. |
| Name | Returns a full name of a Controller‘s type. Inherited from Controller. |
| Site | Gets or sets the ISite of the Component. Inherited from Component. |
| Tag | Provides access to the object that contains data about the Controller. Inherited from Controller. |
| TargetObjectType | Specifies a ViewController‘s target object type. The View Controller is activated only for Views that represent this type. Inherited from ViewController. |
| TargetViewId | Specifies the identifier of the View for which the View Controller is activated, or a semicolon-separated list of identifiers if a View Controller targets multiple Views. Inherited from ViewController. |
| TargetViewNesting | Specifies whether the View for which a View Controller is intended must be root, nested or any. Inherited from ViewController. |
| TargetViewType | Specifies the type of the View, for which a View Controller is intended. Inherited from ViewController. |
| TypeOfView | Specifies the type of the View, for which a View Controller is intended. Inherited from ViewController. |
| View | Provides access to a View Controller’s View. Inherited from ViewController<ViewType>. |
Methods
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| AppearanceBeginUpdate() | Prevents the AppearanceController from being updated until the AppearanceController.AppearanceEndUpdate method is called. |
| AppearanceEndUpdate() | Unlocks the AppearanceController after a call to the AppearanceController.AppearanceBeginUpdate method and resets the rules cache. |
| Clone(IModelApplication) | Clones a Controller. Inherited from Controller. |
| Create(Type) static | Instantiates a Controller object of the specified type and raises it’s Controller.AfterConstruction event. Inherited from Controller. |
| CreateObjRef(Type) | Creates an object that contains all the relevant information required to generate a proxy used to communicate with a remote object. Inherited from MarshalByRefObject. |
| CustomizeTypesInfo(ITypesInfo) | Customizes business class metadata before loading it to the Application Model‘s BOModel node. Inherited from Controller. |
| Dispose() | Releases all resources used by the Component. Inherited from Component. |
| Equals(Object, Object) static | Determines whether the specified object instances are considered equal. Inherited from Object. |
| Equals(Object) | Determines whether the specified object is equal to the current object. Inherited from Object. |
| GetHashCode() | Serves as the default hash function. Inherited from Object. |
| GetLifetimeService() | Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance. Inherited from MarshalByRefObject. |
| GetRulesFromModel(IModelClass) static | Returns the list of appearance rules declared in the specified IModelClass node. |
| GetService(Type) protected | Returns an object that represents a service provided by the Component or by its Container. Inherited from Component. |
| GetType() | Gets the Type of the current instance. Inherited from Object. |
| InitializeLifetimeService() | Obtains a lifetime service object to control the lifetime policy for this instance. Inherited from MarshalByRefObject. |
| MemberwiseClone() protected | Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. Inherited from Object. |
| MemberwiseClone(Boolean) protected | Creates a shallow copy of the current MarshalByRefObject object. Inherited from MarshalByRefObject. |
| ReferenceEquals(Object, Object) static | Determines whether the specified Object instances are the same instance. Inherited from Object. |
| Refresh() | Refreshes the conditional appearance provided by the Controllers registered in the Appearance Controller. |
| RefreshItemAppearance(IViewInfo, String, String, Object, Object, EvaluatorContextDescriptor) | Collects and applies the conditional appearance rules appropriate for the specified UI element with a context descriptor specified. |
| RefreshItemAppearance(IViewInfo, String, String, Object, Object[], EvaluatorContextDescriptor) | Collects and applies the conditional appearance rules appropriate for the specified UI element with a context descriptor specified. |
| RefreshItemAppearance(View, String, String, Object, Object, EvaluatorContextDescriptor) | Obsolete. Collects and applies the conditional appearance rules appropriate for the specified UI element with a context descriptor specified. |
| RefreshItemAppearance(View, String, String, Object, Object) | Collects and applies the conditional appearance rules appropriate for the specified UI element. |
| RefreshItemAppearance(View, String, String, Object, Object[], EvaluatorContextDescriptor) | Obsolete. Collects and applies the conditional appearance rules appropriate for the specified UI element with a context descriptor specified. |
| RegisterController(ISupportRefreshItemsAppearance) | Registers a Controller to refresh the conditional appearance of its UI elements in common scenarios. |
| ResetRulesCache() | Resets the cache of the rules collected by the Appearance Controller at the current moment. |
| SetView(View) | Sets a specified View for a View Controller. Inherited from ViewController. |
| ToString() | Returns a String containing the name of the Component, if any. This method should not be overridden. Inherited from Component. |
| UnRegisterController(ISupportRefreshItemsAppearance) | Removes a Controller from the list of registered Controllers. |
Events
| Name | Description |
|---|---|
| Activated | Occurs when a Controller is activated. Inherited from Controller. |
| AfterConstruction | Occurs after a Controller is created. Inherited from Controller. |
| AppearanceApplied | Occurs after the conditional appearance is applied to the target UI element. |
| CollectAppearance | Obsolete. Occurs after conditional appearance rules for the target UI element are collected. |
| CollectAppearanceRules | Occurs after conditional appearance rules for the business object represented by the specified View are collected from the Application Model. |
| CustomApplyAppearance | Occurs before the conditional appearance is applied to the target UI element. |
| CustomCollectAllAppearanceRuleProperties | Occurs when appearance rules are collected. Use this event to provide the list of rules from a custom source. |
| CustomCreateAppearanceRule | Occurs when an AppearanceRule object is created. |
| CustomGetIsRulePropertiesEmpty | Occurs when the Appearance Controller collects the appearance rules and determines whether or not the specific IAppearanceRuleProperties object is empty. |
| Deactivated | Occurs after a Controller has been deactivated. Inherited from Controller. |
| Disposed | Occurs when the component is disposed by a call to the Dispose() method. Inherited from Component. |
| FrameAssigned | Occurs after a Frame (Window) has been assigned to a Controller. Inherited from Controller. |
| ViewControlsCreated | Occurs after the controls have been created for the current Controller’s ViewController.View if the Controller has already been activated. Inherited from ViewController. |
| ViewControlsDestroying | For internal use only. Inherited from ViewController. |
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