AIX Version 4.3 Differences Guide

the objects. A double click on an object activates it, and pop-up menus can be
available for specific operations on the objects.
A Container can contain hierarchical objects that can be decomposed into further
objects. The Container widget offers three kind of views:
• An icon view, in which every object is represented by an icon.
• A hierarchical view, also called outline or tree view, which displays the object
tree.
• A detail view, a tabular view where every object appears as a line in a table
and properties of the object are listed in the columns.
Icon View
Tree View
A container may display the objects in the typical large icon view. In
this view, every object (a top level object of the tree) is displayed as
an icon with a label. The Container widgets support different types
of layout for those icons. The most popular are:
• Grid mode, where each icon fits into a grid cell.
• Free mode, where the user can freely move the icons around.
As an illustration, see the right side of Figure 47 with the Aquarium
and the Circuit icons.
In the tree view, every object at the top level of the hierarchy is
displayed with a small icon. If the object has sub-objects attached,
the hierarchical organization is displayed with lines and indentation
reflecting the tree structure. This can be seen on the left side of
Figure 47 with the folder structuring.
For very large hierarchies that would take too much space, the
Container widget offers a browsing facility. For each level of the
hierarchy, the application can first decide whether or not the
information below that level should be displayed. Secondly it can
tell the container whether or not the user should be allowed to
browse further.
If the user is not allowed to explore that branch of the tree, a
mini-icon is displayed called the collapsed pixmap.
Detail View
If the user is allowed to explore that branch of the tree, a mini-icon
is displayed called the expand pixmap. Clicking on the expand
pixmaps displays one more level in the hierarchy. As this new level
is displayed, the mini-icon is turned into a collapse pixmap. When
you click on the icon again, that tree branch is removed from the
view.
The detailed view displays a table where each row represents an
object, and each item in the row is a property of that object. The
application is responsible for providing the detail data and the
rendition attributes for it to be displayed.
8.3.1.2 Note Book
The Note Book is another powerful widget, simulating a real notebook that allows
the application to display one page among a stack of pages, maintaining a
constant page size. The Note Book widget includes pages, tabs, a status area
and the page scroller. It stacks its page children so that all page children occupy
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