Ubuntu.Components.AdaptivePageLayout

View with multiple columns of Pages. More...

Properties

• asynchronous : bool
• columns : int
• layouts : PageColumnsLayout
• primaryPage : Page
• primaryPageSource : var

Methods

• addPageToCurrentColumn(sourcePage, page, properties)
• addPageToNextColumn(sourcePage, page, properties)
• removePages(page)

Detailed Description

The component provides a flexible way of viewing a stack of pages in one or more columns. Unlike in PageStack, there can be more than one Page active at a time, depending on the number of the columns in the view.

AdaptivePageLayout stores pages added in a tree. Pages are added relative to a given page, either as sibling (addPageToCurrentColumn) or as child (addPageToNextColumn). This means that removing a non-leaf page from the Page tree will remove all its children from the page tree.

The columns are populated from left to right. The column a page is added to is detected based on the source page that is given to the functions adding the page. The pages can be added either to the same column the source page resides or to the column next to the source page. Giving a null value to the source page will add the page to the leftmost column of the view.

The primary page, the very first page must be specified either through the primaryPage or primaryPageSource properties. primaryPage can only hold a Page instance, primaryPageSource can either be a Component or a url to a document defining a Page. primaryPageSource has precedence over primaryPage, and when set it will report the loaded Page through primaryPage property, and will replace any value set into that property.

import QtQuick 2.4
import Ubuntu.Components 1.3
MainView {
width: units.gu(100)
height: units.gu(60)
AdaptivePageLayout {
anchors.fill: parent
primaryPage: page1
Page {
id: page1
header: PageHeader {
id: header
title: "Main Page"
}
Column {
anchors.top: header.bottom
Button {
text: "Add Page2 above " + page1.title
onClicked: page1.pageStack.addPageToCurrentColumn(page1, page2)
}
Button {
text: "Add Page3 next to " + page1.title
onClicked: page1.pageStack.addPageToNextColumn(page1, page3)
}
}
}
Page {
id: page2
header: PageHeader {
title: "Page #2"
}
}
Page {
id: page3
header: PageHeader {
title: "Page #3"
}
}
}
}

Note: Observe the use of the Page::pageStack property in the example above. The same property is used to share the AdaptivePageLayout instance the Page is used in, therefore the same page can be used in a PageStack or in an AdaptivePageLayout. However implementations must make sure the desired PageStack or AdaptivePageLayout function exists in the instance before using it.

AdaptivePageLayout supports adaptive column handling. When the number of columns changes at runtime the pages are automatically rearranged.

By default the component splits the layout in two columns when the width of the layout exceeds 80 grid units. The first column is sized to 40 grid unit width and the second one to fill the rest of the remaining space. When the 80 grid unit breakpoint is reached, the component will switch from one column to two, and vice versa. These defaults can be overridden through the layouts property by defining the possible layouts, their column sizing and the breakpoints when the layouts should be activated. PageColumn configurations must appear in the same order (from left to right) as the columns appear in the layout. If none of the layouts condition is met, a one column layout will be used.

import QtQuick 2.4
import Ubuntu.Components 1.3
MainView {
width: units.gu(100)
height: units.gu(60)
AdaptivePageLayout {
anchors.fill: parent
primaryPageSource: page1Component
layouts: PageColumnsLayout {
when: width > units.gu(80)
// column #0
PageColumn {
minimumWidth: units.gu(30)
maximumWidth: units.gu(60)
preferredWidth: units.gu(40)
}
// column #1
PageColumn {
fillWidth: true
}
}
Component {
id: page1Component
Page {
id: page1
header: PageHeader {
id: header
title: "Main page"
}
Column {
anchors.top: header.bottom
Button {
text: "Add Page2 above " + page1.title
onClicked: page1.pageStack.addPageToCurrentColumn(page1, page2)
}
Button {
text: "Add Page3 next to " + page1.title
onClicked: page1.pageStack.addPageToNextColumn(page1, page3)
}
}
}
}
Page {
id: page2
header: PageHeader {
title: "Page #2"
}
}
Page {
id: page3
header: PageHeader {
title: "Page #3"
}
}
}
}

A column is considered to be resizable if the PageColumn::minimumWidth and PageColumn::maximumWidth configuration differs. This implies that if a column is not meant to be resized, it should have PageColumn::minimumWidth and PageColumn::maximumWidth set to the same value. In the example above, the first column can be resized to a minimum of 30, and a maximum of 60 grid units, and the preferred width is set to 40 grid units. This width is set every time the layout is activated.

When a Page with the Page::header property set is added to an AdaptivePageLayout, the AdaptivePageLayout will synchronize the height of that header with the height of the headers in other columns, i.e., the height of each of the headers will be set to the maximum implicitHeight of all the headers.

See also PageStack, PageColumnsLayout, and PageColumn.

Property Documentation

The property drives the way the pages should be loaded, synchronously or asynchronously. Defaults to true.

The property holds the number of columns shown in the layout.

The property holds the different layout configurations overriding the default configurations. Defaults to an empty list.

See also PageColumnsLayout.

The property holds the first Page which will be added to the view. If the view has more than one column, the page will be added to the leftmost column. The property can only hold a Page instance. When changed runtime (not by the AdaptivePageLayout component itself), the primaryPageSource property will be reset.

The property specifies the source of the primaryPage in case the primary page is created from a Component or loaded from an external document. It has precedence over primaryPage.

Method Documentation

Adds a page to the column the sourcePage resides in and removes all pages from the higher columns. page can be a Component or a file. properties is a JSON object containing properties to be set when page is created. sourcePage must be active.

The function creates the new page asynchronously if the new page to be added is a Component or a QML document and the asynchronous property is set to true. In this case the function returns an incubator which can be used to track the page creation. For more about incubation in QML and creating components asynchronously, see Component.incubateObject(). The following example removes an element from the list model whenever the page opened in the second column is closed. Note, the example must be run on desktop or on a device with at least 90 grid units screen width.

import QtQuick 2.4
import Ubuntu.Components 1.3
MainView {
width: units.gu(90)
height: units.gu(70)
Component {
id: page2Component
Page {
header: PageHeader {
id: header
title: "Second Page"
}
Button {
anchors.top: header.bottom
text: "Close me"
onClicked: pageStack.removePages(pageStack.primaryPage);
}
}
}
AdaptivePageLayout {
id: pageLayout
anchors.fill: parent
primaryPage: Page {
header: PageHeader {
title: "Primary Page"
flickable: listView
}
ListView {
id: listView
anchors.fill: parent
model: 10
delegate: ListItem {
Label { text: modelData }
onClicked: {
var incubator = pageLayout.addPageToNextColumn(pageLayout.primaryPage, page2Component);
if (incubator && incubator.status == Component.Loading) {
incubator.onStatusChanged = function(status) {
if (status == Component.Ready) {
// connect page's destruction to decrement model
incubator.object.Component.destruction.connect(function() {
listView.model--;
});
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}
}

See also Component.incubateObject.

Remove all previous pages from the next column (relative to the column that holds sourcePage) and all following columns, and then add page to the next column. If sourcePage is located in the rightmost column, the new page will be pushed to the same column as sourcePage. The return value is the same as in addPageToCurrentColumn case.

The function removes and deletes all pages up to and including page is reached. If the page is the same as the primaryPage, only its child pages will be removed.