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renoise.Views.Rack

A Rack has no content on its own. It only stacks child views. Either vertically (ViewBuilder.column) or horizontally (ViewBuilder.row). It allows you to create view layouts.


Properties

margin : RackMargin

Set the "borders" of a rack (left, right, top and bottom inclusively)

  • Default: 0 (no borders)

spacing : RackSpacing

Set the amount stacked child views are separated by (horizontally in rows, vertically in columns).

  • Default: 0 (no spacing)

background : ViewBackgroundStyle

Setup a background style for the view.

uniform : RackUniformity

When set to true, all child views in the rack are automatically resized to the max size of all child views (width in ViewBuilder.column, height in ViewBuilder.row). This can be useful to automatically align all sub columns/panels to the same size. Resizing is done automatically, as soon as a child view size changes or new children are added.

  • Default: false

style : ViewBackgroundStyle

Deprecated Use background instead.

visible : ViewVisibility

Set visible to false to hide a view (make it invisible without removing it). Please note that view.visible will also return false when any of its parents are invisible (when its implicitly invisible).

  • Default: true

origin : ViewOrigin

The position of a view within its parent view. Only the stack layouts allows to freely position child views. Other layout views will automatically set the origin, but the origin then still can be read in for example mouse handlers.

width : ViewDimension

Deprecated. Use property size instead.

height : ViewDimension

Deprecated. Use property size instead.

size : ViewSize

The dimensions of a view has to be larger than 0. For nested views you can also specify relative size, for example vb:text { size = { width = "80%", height = 20}}. The percentage values are relative to the view's parent size and will automatically update when the parent view's size changes.

tooltip : ViewTooltip

A ViewTooltip text that should be shown for this view on mouse hover.

  • Default: "" (no tip will be shown)

cursor : ViewCursorShape

The cursor cursor for this view which apears on mouse hover. Using a "none" shape will use use underlying view's cursor or the default cursor.

views : renoise.Views.View[]

READ-ONLY Empty for all controls, for layout views this contains the layout child views in the order they got added


Functions

add_view(self, child : renoise.Views.View)

Add a new child view to this view.

remove_view(self, child : renoise.Views.View)

Remove a child view from this view.

swap_views(self, child1 : renoise.Views.View, child2 : renoise.Views.View)

Swap position of two child views in this view. With a series of swaps views can be moved to any position in the parent.

add_child(self, child : renoise.Views.View)

Deprecated. Use add_view instead

remove_child(self, child : renoise.Views.View)

Deprecated. Use remove_view instead

swap_childs(self, child1 : renoise.Views.View, child2 : renoise.Views.View)

Deprecated. Use swap_views instead


Aliases

RackMargin

integer

Set the "borders" of a rack (left, right, top and bottom inclusively)

  • Default: 0 (no borders)

RackSpacing

integer

Set the amount stacked child views are separated by (horizontally in rows, vertically in columns).

  • Default: 0 (no spacing)

RackUniformity

boolean

When set to true, all child views in the rack are automatically resized to the max size of all child views (width in ViewBuilder.column, height in ViewBuilder.row). This can be useful to automatically align all sub columns/panels to the same size. Resizing is done automatically, as soon as a child view size changes or new children are added.

  • Default: false

ViewBackgroundStyle

"body" | "border" | "group" | "invisible" | "panel" | "plain"

-- Setup a background style for the view. 
ViewBackgroundStyle:
    | "invisible" -- no background (Default)
    | "plain" -- undecorated, single coloured background
    | "border" -- same as plain, but with a bold nested border
    | "body" -- main "background" style, as used in dialog backgrounds
    | "panel" -- alternative "background" style, beveled
    | "group" -- background for "nested" groups within body

ViewCursorShape

"busy" | "change_value" | "crosshair" | "default" | "drag" | "drop" | "edit_text" | "empty" | "erase" | "extend_bottom" | "extend_bottom_alias" | "extend_left" | "extend_left_alias" | "extend_right" | "extend_right_alias" | "extend_top" | "extend_top_alias" | "marker" | "move" | "nodrop" | "none" | "pencil" | "play" | "resize_edge_diagonal_left" | "resize_edge_diagonal_right" | "resize_edge_horizontal" | "resize_edge_vertical" | "resize_horizontal" | "resize_vertical" | "zoom" | "zoom_horizontal" | "zoom_vertical"

-- The cursor cursor for this view which apears on mouse hover.
-- Using a "none" shape will use use underlying view's cursor or the default cursor.
ViewCursorShape:
    | "none"
    | "empty"
    | "default"
    | "change_value"
    | "edit_text"
    | "pencil"
    | "marker"
    | "crosshair"
    | "move"
    | "erase"
    | "play"
    | "drag"
    | "drop"
    | "nodrop"
    | "busy"
    | "resize_vertical"
    | "resize_horizontal"
    | "resize_edge_vertical"
    | "resize_edge_horizontal"
    | "resize_edge_diagonal_left"
    | "resize_edge_diagonal_right"
    | "extend_left"
    | "extend_right"
    | "extend_top"
    | "extend_bottom"
    | "extend_left_alias"
    | "extend_right_alias"
    | "extend_top_alias"
    | "extend_bottom_alias"
    | "zoom_vertical"
    | "zoom_horizontal"
    | "zoom"

ViewDimension

string | integer

The dimensions of a view has to be larger than 0. For nested views you can also specify relative size for example vb:text { width = "80%"}. The percentage values are relative to the view's parent size and will automatically update on size changes.

ViewOrigin

{ 1 : ViewPosition, 2 : ViewPosition } | { x : ViewPosition, y : ViewPosition }

The position of a view within its parent view. Only the stack layouts allows to freely position child views. Other layout views will automatically set the origin, but the origin then still can be read in for example mouse handlers.

ViewPosition

integer

Horizontal (x) or Vertical (y) position of a view within its parent view.

ViewSize

{ 1 : ViewDimension, 2 : ViewDimension } | { height : ViewDimension, width : ViewDimension }

The dimensions of a view has to be larger than 0. For nested views you can also specify relative size, for example vb:text { size = { width = "80%", height = 20}}. The percentage values are relative to the view's parent size and will automatically update when the parent view's size changes.

ViewTooltip

string

A ViewTooltip text that should be shown for this view on mouse hover.

  • Default: "" (no tip will be shown)

ViewVisibility

boolean

Set visible to false to hide a view (make it invisible without removing it). Please note that view.visible will also return false when any of its parents are invisible (when its implicitly invisible).

  • Default: true