Components

TermScreen

The terminal screen contains all components and containers as well as open dialogs. The screen can start by UITerminal#openScreen(...) and stop by UITerminal#closeScreen() The screen occupies the dimension of the console window and is the main origin of all elements added to this screen.

RootContainer

The root container is the origin of all components and the superclass of TermScreen and TermDialog. The selection of components with superclass (SelectableComponent) is controlled by keyboard and mouse inputs.

RootContainer container = ...;
SelectableComponent component = container.selectedComponent();
//the component variable is the current selected element in the root container

container.select(SelectableComponent);

container.unselect();

SelectableComponent

All components with SelectableComponent as superclass, are selectabe if it enabled (Component#enabled()) and visible (Component#visible()).

Container

The container has the option of having subordinate components and containers. All subordinate elements on the first layer refer to this container.

Container container = ...;
container.add(component);
container.remove(component);
for (Component component : container.components()) {
  //child component from first layer
}

Last modified: 01 Juni 2025