Viewer:UI/Widgets

Overview

Widgets are the UI controls, i.e. the components that make up the UI.

Widget design and registration

Registration

A widget is registered by including the following code in the widget C++ file (e.g. llbutton.cpp):

   static LLDefaultChildRegistry::Register<LLButton> r("button");

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• Coverage Test

Classes

Widget Base Classes

• LLView - Base class for all UI components
• ui_ctrl - LLUICtrl - Base class for all widgets. LLUICtrl derives from LLView

Common Embedded Widgets

These are never used by themselves

• scroll_bar - LLScrollBar

Containers

• panel - LLPanel
• floater - LLFloater
• layout_stack - LLLayoutStack
  • LLResizeBar
  • LLResizeHandle
  • LLDragHandle
• tab_container - LLTabContainer
  • placeholder - LLPlaceHolderPanel
• container_view - LLContainerView
• scroll_container - LLScrollContainer
• scrolling_panel_list - LLScrollingPanelList
  • LLScrollingPanel

UI Widgets

Misc Widgets

• progress_bar - LLProgressBar
• icon - LLIconCtrl - read-only icon, not clickable
• pad or locate - LLUICtrlLocate

Menu Widgets

• menu_bar - LLMenuBarGL - menu bar
• menu - LLMenuGL - drop-down menu for top of screen or floater
  • menu_item_separator - LLMenuItemSeparatorGL
  • menu_item_call - LLMenuItemCallGL
  • menu_item_check - LLMenuItemCheckGL

Button Widgets

• button - LLButton - clickable push button
• flyout_button - LLFlyoutButton - button with combo box like behavior

Input Widgets

• check_box - LLCheckBoxCtrl
• combo_box - LLComboBox (LLCtrlSelectionInterface, LLCtrlListInterface) - pop-up menu of items with optional direct text entry
• line_editor - LLLineEditor (LLEditMenuHandler, LLPreeeditor) - single line input
• multi_slider - LLMultiSliderCtrl
  • multi_slider_barLLMultiSlider
• radio_group - LLRadioGroup (LLCtrlSelectionInterface) - group of radio buttons
  • radio_item - LLRadioCtrl - single radio button, usually part of a LLRadioGroup
• scroll_list - LLScrollListCtrl (LLCtrlSelectionInterface, LLCtrlListInterface, LLCtrlScrollInterface) + LLEditMenuHandler - scrolling list of columns
• search_editor - LLSearchEditor (contains LLLineEditor)
• slider - LLSliderCtrl
  • slider_bar or volume_slider - LLSlider
• spinner - LLSpinCtrl - spinner, integer or float value
• star_view - LLStatView - grouping of statistics bars
  • star_bar - LLStatBar - statistics bar, horizontal
• text - LLTextBox - read-only multi-line text output
• simple_text_editor - LLTextEditor (LLEditMenuHandler, LLPreeeditor) - multi-line text input
  • See text_editor in Viewer section
• view_border - LLViewBorder - decorator for views

Viewer Widgets

Containers

• inventory_panel - LLInventoryPanel
• panel_inventory - LLPanelInventory

Misc

• avatar_icon - LLAvatarIconCtrl
• favorites_bar - LLFavoritesBarCtrl
• output_monitor - LLOutputMonitorCtrl
• drop_target - LLDropTarget
• group_drop_target - LLGroupDropTarget

Color / Texture Input

• color_swatch - LLColorSwatchCtrl
• texture_picker - LLTextureCtrl

Input

• location_input - LLLocationInputCtrl
• name_box - LLNameBox
• name_editor - LLNameEditor
• name_list - LLNameListCtrl
• text_editor - LLViewerTextEditor

Camera / Joystick

• joystick_slide - LLJoystickAgentSlide
• joystick_turn - LLJoystickAgentTurn
• joystick_rotate - LLJoystickCameraRotate
• joystick_zoom - LLJoystickCameraZoom
• joystick_track - LLJoystickCameraTrack

Web

• web_browser - LLWebBrowserCtrl

Also

• string - This tag occurs in XML files to specify translatable strings