GroupBox

GroupBox

Normally Brixxbox takes the responsibility of placing controls in an app. In order to group controls in a row we can use row control. For a vertical alignment, you can formgroup or groupBox. Groupbox is the advanced form of formgroup. It has all the functionalities of formgroup. Additionally, it also has a header and a border.

Documentation

In Brixxbox, app configuration allows you to add different controls in your app. It also provides four types of properties which manages how control should behave or look in app. Those four property types are:

1. General Properties

2. Size

3. Style

4. Translation

General Properties

These are the main properties of any control. These properties define how control behaves in Brixxbox App.

• Control Type

- For using grid control, click on "Add Control" and select "GroupBox" control type from drop down list.

• Control Id

- For each Brixxbox app, this id should be unique. For Example: "_abcdef". Brixxbox allows you to change its value only once. You can change this id to any value but it should be meaningful. Recommended way is to start with mandatory prefix(set in app). It can contain numbers, underscores, uppercase and lowercase letters.

• Label

- It is the display value for control. It should be meaningful.

• Refers to Config

- You need to set this option if this is a field, that other fields refer to, to get data from another config.

Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will see how to use groupbox control to achieve vertical grouping of controls. This control is purely used for structuring controls. For this tutorial, we will be using item app. Our app has 5 controls: item id(numbox), | item name(text box), sale price(numbox), quantity(numbox), and quantity unit type(combobox). Right now, the order of controls is selected by us but the placement is selected by Brixxbox. Our app looks like this:

Now we want to present item id and item name in a vertical fashion. For that, we need Groupbox. Lets add a Groupboxfrom the controls list, name it "item details" and add both item id and item name as its children's. Now these two controls with be placed vertically and Brixxbox will try to place other controls in horizontal fashion, wherever it finds a place. Our app now looks like this:

As we can see in the above snapshot that item id and item name controls are placed vertically and groupbox containing them has a clear boundary and a header while other controls are placed row wise. If there is enough space available after groupbox, brixxbox will start placing other controls there. Now we also want to add two more groupboxes for other controls. Lets add two new groupbox type controls and place quantity controls in one groupbox and price control in second one as their children respectively:

We can see the final version of app is more organized. Item details, quantity details, and price details are in separate groupboxes with meaningful header and visible boundary makes our app much more readalbe.