Interface: View

View is a base class for all other visual components. All View-derived components have the following properties, methods, and events in addition to their own.

Hierarchy

• Component

  ↳ View

  ↳↳ Element

  ↳↳ Container

  ↳↳ Text

  ↳↳ Button

  ↳↳ Input

  ↳↳ Checkbox

  ↳↳ Switch

  ↳↳ Slider

  ↳↳ Select

  ↳↳ Image

  ↳↳ Audio

  ↳↳ Video

  ↳↳ HTML

  ↳↳ Drawing

  ↳↳ Confetti

  ↳↳ FlyingEmojisHtml

  ↳↳ FlyingEmojis

  ↳↳ Rectangle

  ↳↳ Ellipse

  ↳↳ Polygon

  ↳↳ Star

  ↳↳ Heart

  ↳↳ Line

  ↳↳ Arrow

  ↳↳ PointerPosition

  ↳↳ Canvas

  ↳↳ Location

  ↳↳ Timer

Properties

BackdropBlur

• Optional BackdropBlur: BackdropBlurEffect

BlendMode

• Optional BlendMode: BlendModeEffect

Blur

• Optional Blur: BlurEffect

Brightness

• Optional Brightness: BrightnessEffect

Contrast

• Optional Contrast: ContrastEffect

Draggable

• Optional Draggable: DraggableEffect

Follow

• Optional Follow: FollowEffect

Glow

• Optional Glow: GlowEffect

Grayscale

• Optional Grayscale: GrayscaleEffect

HueRotate

• Optional HueRotate: HueRotateEffect

Invert

• Optional Invert: InvertEffect

LetterSpacing

• Optional LetterSpacing: LetterSpacingEffect

LookAt

• Optional LookAt: LookAtEffect

Physics

• Optional Physics: PhysicsEffect

Saturation

• Optional Saturation: SaturationEffect

Sepia

• Optional Sepia: SepiaEffect

Shadow

• Optional Shadow: ShadowEffect

Spin

• Optional Spin: SpinEffect

TextOutline

• Optional TextOutline: TextOutlineEffect

Transform

• Optional Transform: TransformEffect

backgroundColor

• backgroundColor: undefined | string

The background color of the component.

Can be any valid CSS color value (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value (opens in a new tab)). An undefined background color is transparent.

Example

// Set the background color of the view to a translucent red.
view.backgroundColor = 'rgba(255, 0, 0, 50%)'

color

• color: undefined | string

The foreground or text color of the component.

Can be any valid CSS color value (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value (opens in a new tab)). An undefined foreground color is inherited from one of the component's ancestors.

Example

// Set the foreground color of the view to red.
view.color = 'red';

componentType

• Readonly componentType: string

The component's type. E.g. "View", "Text", "Button", "Page", etc.

Inherited from

Component.componentType

height

• height: number

The height of the component.

id

• Readonly id: number

Every Component is assigned a unique numerical id that cannot be changed. Components can be looked up by id using the get function.

Inherited from

Component.id

link

• link: undefined | string

The address of the link. Can be a URL to a web page, a 'tel:' phone number, a 'mailto:' email address, or a 'sms:' phone number. Also can be a relative link to a page, "@previous" for the previous page, or "@next" for the next page. If undefined the component is not treated as a link.

Default

undefined

linkRel

• linkRel: LinkRelType

See

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Attributes/rel (opens in a new tab)

linkTarget

• linkTarget: "_blank" | "_self" | "_parent" | "_top"

The target of the link. Can be '_blank' (open in new window or tab), '_self' (replace current page), '_parent' (replace parent if in an iframe), or '_top' (replace top if in an iframe).

Default

'_self'

See

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/a#target (opens in a new tab)

linkTitle

• linkTitle: string

The title of the link displayed on hover. If '' nothing is displayed.

Default

''

name

• name: undefined | string

Every Component can have a user-assigned name. It can be anything and is not guaranteed to be unique. Components can be looked up by name using the get function.

Inherited from

Component.name

opacity

• opacity: number

The component's opacity, or level of transparency.

1 is fully opaque (not transparent at all), 0.5 is 50% see-through, and 0 is completely transparent.

page

• Readonly page: undefined | Page

The Page that this component is a child of, if any.

parent

• Readonly parent: undefined | View

When added to a Container (or a Page, which is a Container), the Container is assigned to the parent property.

rotation

• rotation: number

The component's rotation, in degrees.

scale

• scale: number

The component's scale multiplier.

style

• style: Partial (opens in a new tab)<CSSStyleDeclaration (opens in a new tab)>

Low-level access to the component's CSS property.

tabIndex

• tabIndex: undefined | number

Control if or how the component is focused when the tab key is pressed.

0 - The component should be focusable in sequential keyboard navigation, after any positive tabIndex values. a positive value - Should be focusable in sequential keyboard navigation, with the order defined by the value. -1 - Should not be focusable in sequential keyboard navigation, but could be focused programmatically. undefined - the browser decides whether the component is focusable.

Default

undefined

See

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/tabindex (opens in a new tab)

visible

• visible: boolean

The component's visibility.

true is visible, false is invisible

width

• width: number

The width of the component.

x

• x: number

The component's x coordinate.

y

• y: number

The component's y coordinate.

Methods

addEffect

▸ addEffect(effect): void

Add an effect to the component.

Parameters

Returns

void

clone

▸ clone(): View

Create an exact duplicate of a component.

The clone must be added to a container with appendChild to be visible.

Returns

View

Example

const clone = view.clone();
clone.x = 100;
clone.y = 100;
view.page.appendChild(clone);

Overrides

Component.clone

dispatchEvent

▸ dispatchEvent(event): Promise (opens in a new tab)<void>

Triggers the event listeners for the specified event.

Parameters

Returns

Promise (opens in a new tab)<void>

Inherited from

Component.dispatchEvent

focus

▸ focus(options?): void

Parameters

Returns

void

hasPointerCapture

▸ hasPointerCapture(pointerId): boolean

Parameters

Returns

boolean

localPointFromClient

▸ localPointFromClient(x, y): Object

Convert a client viewport position to a position suitable for a View. Useful for converting mouse or touch positions.

Parameters

Returns

Object

an object with x and y properties.

Example

let dragging = false;
let pointerOffset;
this.on("pointerdown", (event) => {
  this.setPointerCapture(event.pointerId);
  // note: objects are positioned within their parent's coordinate system
  const point = this.parent.localPointFromClient(event.clientX, event.clientY)
  pointerOffset = { x: point.x - this.x, y: point.y - this.y };
  dragging = true;
});
 
this.on("pointermove", (ev) => {
if (!dragging)
    return;
  // note: objects are positioned within their parent's coordinate system
  const point = this.parent.localPointFromClient(ev.clientX, ev.clientY);
  this.x = point.x - pointerOffset.x;
  this.y = point.y - pointerOffset.y;
});
 
this.on("pointerup", (event) => {
  this.releasePointerCapture(event.pointerId);
  dragging = false;
});

on

▸ on<K>(type, listener, options?): () => void

Add an event listener to the component.

Type parameters

Parameters

Returns

fn

Returns a function that removes the event listener.

▸ (): void

Add an event listener to the component.

Returns

void

Returns a function that removes the event listener.

Inherited from

Component.on

releasePointerCapture

▸ releasePointerCapture(pointerId): void

Parameters

Returns

void

remove

▸ remove(): void

Remove the component from its parent.

Returns

void

Example

view.remove();

removeEffect

▸ removeEffect(effect): void

Remove an effect to the component.

Parameters

Returns

void

setPointerCapture

▸ setPointerCapture(pointerId): void

Parameters

Returns

void