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Ferreteria: layout system

About

The layout system provides classes to encapsulate the rendering of serial-text output, working from the most general output concepts down to specific HTML tags. It should be adaptable to other forms of markup. It includes a small set of event objects to allow objects in the tree to coordinate their actions, which are triggered in this order:

1. cEventNodeBuild: create any subsidiary nodes which might themselves need to receive events
2. cEventNodeFigure: do any calculations involving other nodes (which will have been created by this point)
  • This allows, for example, the number of visible twigs to be calculated before rendering. Some elements may only display themselves if they have at least one visible twig -- or may display differently if they don't.
    • ...although that kind of process could probably be done without an event-system. One that can't, however, is where one element needs to access another one that is outside of its branch, to read or write data. There needs to be a means of ensuring that all required nodes will have been created by a certain point, and the layout system's event-subsystem is what does that.
    • The event-subsystem also provides an unambiguous waystation for ensuring that those calculations (which may be relatively expensive) are done exactly once.
3. cEventNodeRender: assemble the string representing the markup for the object's appearance within the output (typically the screen, but in theory could also be a document or even audio markup of some kind).

The basic layout classes use the ferret\layout namespace.

Methods

Events: general

  • ShouldDoTwigs(): protected function ShouldDoTwigs() : bool
    • Action: Determine whether events (including rendering) should be passed down to twigs. This typically returns a flag that is set during the calculations event.

Events: rendering

  • OnRender(): public function OnRender(cEventNodeRender $oe) : void
    • This is the optional dispatch method which the rendering event looks for. If present, it is called.
  • RenderOutput(): public function RenderOutput() : string
    • Action: Assemble the entirety of the object's output, including any twigs.
  • RenderValue(): protected function RenderValue() : string
    • Action: Assemble the object's own output (separate from twig outputs).
  • RenderBranch(): protected function RenderBranch() : string:
    • Action: Assemble the twig outputs, applying any whole-list formatting (e.g. <ul>) or conditionals.
  • RenderTwigs(): protected function RenderTwigs() : string
    • Action: Assemble the basic twig outputs, applying any list-item formatting (e.g. <li>.

The canonical/typical method tree for rendering:

This tree can be overridden at any point, but generally it's best to do so at the lowest level in order to cause the least disruption to offspring classes.