BoardPalette QML Type

The build lab's top-left panel: presets, the parts to take, the tools - in foldable sections. More...

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Properties

• board : Board
• catalog : var
• columnWidth : real
• columnWidth \brief The content width. : real
• compact : bool
• flow : var
• flow \brief The flow the \l FlowChip offers. : var
• grid : var
• grid \brief The \l GridMode the grid button toggles. : var
• hands : var
• hands \brief The \l InstrumentBelt the placer lives on. : var
• icon : Component
• lab : var
• lab \brief The sandbox root, for the \l ScenarioBar. : var
• overlay : var
• overlay \brief The \l BoardOverlay the values button cycles. : var
• placer : var
• placer \brief The \l PartPlacer. : var
• sectionsOpen : var
• tools : var

Methods

• bool sectionOpen(string key)
• void toggleSection(string key)

Detailed Description

Eleven parts, eleven presets and four tools stopped fitting a laptop screen, and shrinking the type would be the wrong fix. So the reader folds away the half they are not using, and what stays open is theirs - it rides in viewState() (sectionsOpen) rather than resetting on every reload. The panel is bounded and flickable, so nothing in here can ever be off the bottom of the screen; folding is the fast way to make room, this is the guarantee that the slow way always exists.

Turn the text size up and the column stops fitting: with compact the parts and tools go two across and drop their one-line hints - captions give way before things you click.

The domain supplies the catalog (which types, in which colour) and an icon component drawn beside each name - the palette is where a kit can teach "this lump is that squiggle" for free.

BoardPalette {
    id: palette
    board: board; lab: root; flow: root.currentFlow; hands: hands
    placer: placer; grid: grid; overlay: overlay
    catalog: Parts.catalog
    icon: Component { SymbolIcon {} }
}

See also Board, PartPlacer, ScenarioBar, FlowChip, and LabPanel.

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