vaadin-framework/src/com/itmill/toolkit/demo/features/FeatureCustomLayout.java

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package com.itmill.toolkit.demo.features;

import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;

import com.itmill.toolkit.terminal.ExternalResource;
import com.itmill.toolkit.ui.*;

public class FeatureCustomLayout extends Feature {

	protected String getDescriptionXHTML() {
		return "<p>A container component with freely designed layout and style. The "
				+ "container consists of items with textually represented locations. Each "
				+ "item contains one sub-component. The adapter and theme are resposible "
				+ "for rendering the layout with given style by placing the items on the "
				+ "screen in defined locations.</p>"
				+ "<p>The definition of locations is not fixed - the each style can define its "
				+ "locations in a way that is suitable for it. One typical example would be "
				+ "to create visual design for a website as a custom layout: the visual design "
				+ "could define locations for \"menu\", \"body\" and \"title\" for example. "
				+ "The layout would then be implemented as XLS-template with for given style.</p>"
				+ "<p>The default theme handles the styles that are not defined by just drawing "
				+ "the subcomponents with flowlayout.</p>";
	}

	protected String getExampleSrc() {
		return "CustomLayout c = new CustomLayout(\"style-name\");\n"
				+ "c.addComponent(new Label(\"foo\"),\"foo-location\");\n"
				+ "c.addComponent(new Label(\"bar\"),\"bar-location\");\n";
	}

	protected String getImage() {
		return "customlayout.jpg";
	}

	protected String getTitle() {
		return "CustomLayout";
	}

	protected Component getDemoComponent() {
		OrderedLayout l = new OrderedLayout();

		l
				.addComponent(new Label(
						"<p>For demonstration, see GO-Game example application. All of the "
								+ "layouting done in the aplication is handled by CustomLayout with \"goroom\"-style "
								+ "that is defined in \"gogame\"-theme. The theme is simply created by exteding "
								+ "default theme trough theme-inheritance and adding couple of xsl-templates</p>",
						Label.CONTENT_UIDL));

		URL goUrl = null;
		try {
			goUrl = new URL(getApplication().getURL(), "../go/");
		} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
		}

		if (goUrl != null) {
			Link link = new Link("Start GO-Game", new ExternalResource(goUrl));
			link.setTargetName("gogame");
			link.setTargetBorder(Link.TARGET_BORDER_NONE);
			l.addComponent(link);
		}

		return l;
	}

}