Buttons

Buttons

The Onyx library provides a rich assortment of buttons for use in your Enyo applications. This document surveys the types of buttons that you are most likely to use.

onyx.Button

onyx.Button derives directly from enyo.Button and provides the same basic functionality, while adding a modicum of visual styling.

{kind: "onyx.Button", content: "tap me"}

When an onyx.Button is tapped, it generates an ontap event; you may respond to the event by specifying a handler method, e.g.:

{kind: "onyx.Button", content: "tap me", ontap: "buttonTapped"},

...

buttonTapped: function(inSender, inEvent) {
    // respond to the tap event
}

In addition, you may customize the look of a button by specifying foreground and background colors, or by applying one of Onyx's built-in button styles:

{kind: "onyx.Toolbar", components: [
    {kind: "onyx.Button", content: "tap me"},
    {kind: "onyx.Button", content: "purple", style: "background-color: purple; color: #F1F1F1;"},
    {kind: "onyx.Button", content: "yes", classes: "onyx-affirmative"},
    {kind: "onyx.Button", content: "no", classes: "onyx-negative"},
    {kind: "onyx.Button", content: "onyx-blue", classes: "onyx-blue"}
]}

You may also place an image inside a button, with or without accompanying text, as in the following examples:

{kind: "onyx.Button", ontap:"buttonTapped", components: [
    {kind: "onyx.Icon", src: "https://github.com/enyojs/enyo/wiki/assets/fish_bowl.png"}
]}

{kind: "onyx.Button", ontap:"buttonTapped", components: [
    {tag: "img", attributes: {src: "https://github.com/enyojs/enyo/wiki/assets/fish_bowl.png"}},
    {content: "Go Fish"}
]}

onyx.IconButton

Similar effects may be achieved using onyx.IconButton, a subkind of onyx.Icon. For instance, the code

{kind: "onyx.IconButton", src: "assets/my_icon.png"}

yields an icon that acts like a button, but is not displayed against the shaded rectangular background generally associated with buttons.

One may also use onyx.Icon to create a button with both text and an image:

{kind: "onyx.Button", ontap: "buttonTap", components: [
    {kind: "onyx.Icon", src: "assets/my_icon.png"},
    {content: "tap me"}
]}

A key difference between onyx.IconButton and onyx.Button is that the image associated with the IconButton's src property is assumed to be a 32x64-pixel strip, with the top half showing the button's normal state and the bottom half showing its state when active. (By contrast, when you activate an onyx.Button that contains an image, the state change is reflected in the button's background, but not in the image itself.)

onyx.RadioButton

In Enyo 2, an onyx.RadioButton is an enyo.Button designed to go inside an onyx.RadioGroup (a horizontally-oriented group of buttons in which tapping on one button will release any previously-tapped button).

Let's look at how a radio group works.

enyo.kind({
    name: "RadioGroupSample",
    kind: "Control",
    components: [
        {kind: "onyx.RadioGroup", onActivate: "radioActivated", components: [
            {content: "Alpha"},
            {content: "Beta"},
            {content: "Gamma"}
        ]},
        {name: "statusText", content: "Please make a selection"}
    ],
    radioActivated: function(inSender, inEvent) {
	    if (inEvent.originator.getActive()) {
            this.$.statusText.setContent("Current selection: " +
            inEvent.originator.getContent());
        }
    }
});

Notice that we have one handler method for the entire radio group. When a button is tapped (or "activated"), we are able to identify the source of the event using inEvent.originator. So if we tap the "Alpha" button, we see the following:

It's also worth noting that we didn't have to explicitly declare the kind for our radio buttons. When a new control is added to an onyx.RadioGroup, its kind defaults to onyx.RadioButton. (You can change this behavior by explicitly setting the defaultKind property of the radio group.)