Panel

panel

Creates a panel-window.

After successful execution the new panel is the default parent-window. The default-layout is set empty.

Lua Syntax:

panel(windowName, {flags=1, 
    title = "string", 
    style = ["SIMPLE_BORDER"|"DOUBLE_BORDER"|"SUNKEN_BORDER"|"RAISED_BORDER"|"STATIC_BORDER"|"SP_NOBORDER"], 
    position = {x=int,y=int}, 
    size = {x=int,y=int}, 
    border = "[lrtb] width", 
    align = "left"|"right"|"center"|"top"|"bottom", 
    expand = "shaped", 
    proportion = int})

Arguments

windowName

"string" - Name of the new panel-window, note that for a panel-window the name is mandatory!

Flags

t/title

Specifies a title-text for the panel used as a notebook page.

st/style

Specifies the window style of the panel.

["SIMPLE_BORDER"|"DOUBLE_BORDER"|"SUNKEN_BORDER"|"RAISED_BORDER"|"STATIC_BORDER"|"SP_NOBORDER"] - SIMPLE_BORDER Displays a thin border around the window. wxBORDER is the old name for this style.

DOUBLE_BORDER Displays a double border. Windows and Mac only.

SUNKEN_BORDER Displays a sunken border.

RAISED_BORDER Displays a raised border.

STATIC_BORDER Displays a border suitable for a static control. Windows only.NO_BORDER Displays no border, overriding the default border style for the window.

pos/position

Specifies the position of the window.

sz/size

Specifies the size of the window.

b/border

This flag specifies to which side(s) of the control a border will be applied to.

"[lrtb] width" - First group is a string combining characters standing for 'left', 'right', 'top' and 'bottom' side.After a space the width of the border in pixel is specified.

al/align

Specifies the alignment of the item within the space allotted to it by the layout.

"left"|"right"|"center"|"top"|"bottom" - Alignment of control. Top- and bottom-align only makes sense in a row-layout, left- and right-align in a column layout.

exp/expand

Specifies whether the item will be expanded to fill the space assigned to the item.

"shaped" - With this argument the item will be expanded as much as possible while also maintaining its aspect ratio

p/proportion

Used in row- and column-layout to indicate if a child of a layout can change its size in the main orientation of the layout - where 0 stands for not changeable and a value of more than zero is interpreted relative to the value of other children of the same layout.

Return Values

String

Name of the new panel-window