From 8672e5520a33ad6b4c1ae50df1cdc08665476857 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pietro Gagliardi Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 15:15:33 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added a glossary. I'm still not too happy with this... --- GLOSSARY | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) create mode 100644 GLOSSARY diff --git a/GLOSSARY b/GLOSSARY new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a965eb34 --- /dev/null +++ b/GLOSSARY @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +In the interest of making sure that everything in ui is consistent, here is a glossary of various conflicting terms and what they mean to the library. These are disjunct from the terminology used by each backend's native platform; context should be used to differentiate where appropriate. + +CONTAINER + a uiControl that hosts other controls, such as uiStack and uiGrid +PARENT + a non-uiControl that maintains a single uiControl; that uiControl can be a container, in which case the purpose of the parent is to collect the controls in that container for the purpose of the operating system as a holder +HOLDER + a non-uiControl that hosts an uiControl from the perspective of the operating system + this should always be a parent +CONTENT + the non-uiControl that acts as a parent and a holder; this is used by uiWindow and uiTab