Understanding the PanelItem class

The Guide Tree view in the Guide Design perspective in Workbench has panels where you add Guide objects and utility objects. Each of these panels can be thought of as a type of playlist. The objects on a panel are ordered in a sequence that you determine, and each object occupies exactly one space in the sequence. The PanelItem class behaves like a column in a table, where each object from the playlist occupies one slot, or cell in the table. You can control how many cells you want the column to display. By having more than one instance of PanelItem , you can create a multicolumn experience with objects from the playlist distributed across columns.

You can view an MXML example of using the PanelItem class in the section Extending the blank panel layout . However, understanding the concept of the PanelItem class is central to understanding panel layouts, and Guides as a whole.

For examples of using the PanelItem class, view the MXML source for the panel layouts included with the LiveCycle ES2.5 SDK. The panel layouts are available in the LiveCycle_ES_SDK\misc\Guides\code\src\ga\layouts folder where Workbench is installed.