Apple Newton Programmer’s Newton 2.0 (for Newton 2.0) - Manual (Page 98)

C H A P T E R 3
Views
3-14 About Views
■ horizontal alignment of the view relative to its parent or sibling view
■ vertical alignment of the view relative to its parent or sibling view
■ text limits
For example, you could specify these alignment attributes for a button view that has
its text centered within the view and is placed relative to its parent and sibling views:
vjCenterH+vjCenterV+vjSiblingRightH+vjParentBottomV+oneLineOnly
If you don’t specify an attribute from a group, the default attribute for that group
is used.
The view alignment attributes and the defaults are listed and described in Table 3-1.
The effects of these attributes are illustrated in Figure 3-7, following the table.
Sibling setting are not used if the view has not previous setting, instead the parent
settings are used.
Table 3-1 viewJustify constants
Constant Value Description
Horizontal alignment of view contents
vjLeftH 0 Left alignment (default).
vjCenterH 2 Center alignment (default for clPictureView only).
vjRightH 1 Right alignment.
vjFullH 3 Stretches the view contents to fill the entire view width.
Vertical alignment of view contents
1
vjTopV 0 Top alignment (default).
vjCenterV 4 Center alignment (default for clPictureView only).
vjBottomV 8 Bottom alignment.
vjFullV 12 For views of the clPictureView class only;
stretches the picture to fill the entire view height.
Horizontal alignment of the view relative to its parent or sibling view 2
vjParentLeftH 0 The left and right view bounds are relative to the
parent’s left side (default).
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