The
Frame objects holds information about what a frame to display. The
Add
method returns the newly added frame. The
Item
property gets a frame object based on its index.
A Frame is defined by an union of nodes, and can:
- specify whether the frame is shown on the back or on the front using the
ShowOnBackground property
- define the padding of the frame using the Padding
property
- define a solid or EBN background color to be displayed on the frame's
background, using the BackColor property
of the Frame object
- The BackgroundExt property of the
Frame object, defines unlimited options to show any HTML text, images, colors,
EBNs, patterns, borders anywhere on the frame's background.
- define a different border or pattern to be shown, using the Pattern
property
The following screen show shows an EBN frame around child nodes of the root
node:
The Frame object supports the following properties and methods:
| | Name | Description | |
| | BackColor | Gets or sets a value that indicates the frame's background color. | |
| | BackgroundExt | Indicates additional colors, text, images that can be displayed on the frame's background using the EBN string format. | |
| | BackgroundExtValue | Specifies at runtime, the value of the giving property for specified part of the background extension. | |
| | Index | Indicates the index of the current Frame object within the Frames collection. | |
| | Nodes | Specifies the list of keys for the nodes to show the frame, separated by comma character. The node's key may ends with (all) to include all child, assistant nodes, with (child) to include the direct children of the node only, with (assistant) to include the as?³?K | |
| | Padding | Returns or sets a value that indicates the padding of the frame. | |
| | Pattern | Specifies the pattern of the frame. | |
| | ShowOnBackground | Shows the frame on the control's background. | |
| | Visible | Shows or hides the frame. | |
