frame-with-single-child

Class

Package: common-graphics

The superclass of the standard window types: bitmap-window and text-edit-window. Specialized window types are often subclasses of this class. Use this class for text editing and displaying bitmaps when toolbars and other Windows-like features are essential. frame-with-single-child always knows the exact size of its client area (the visible interior of the window minus toolbars, status bars, and other hardware). The interior of frame-with-single-child is covered by a pane. Drawing or writing are done on that pane. Frame attributes such as a toolbar, a menubar, or a status bar can be added and the pane child is resized automatically to accommodate them. If you define a subclass to frame-with-single-child, you should define a pane class and a default-pane-class method so that the correct type of pane will be created automatically when you create an instance of your own frame-with-single-child subclass.

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Created 2000.10.5.