FBB::Align(3bobcat)

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🌸 FBB::Align — a.k.a. FBB::Align(3bobcat) 💅

okay bestie, this is the Table Element Alignment page from the bobcat manual — it lives in section 3bobcat and it's genuinely iconic, let's get into it ✨

✨ NAME ✨

FBB::Align — the class that aligns elements inside Table objects 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <bobcat/align>

Linking option: -lbobcat

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically, this class makes objects that the class FBB::Table uses to define the alignment of its columns and/or its elements. That's the whole vibe. Lowkey essential, highkey cute. 💅

👑 NAMESPACE 👑

FBB

Every constructor, member, operator and manipulator that gets a shoutout on this man-page is defined in the namespace FBB. periodt.

🌈 INHERITS FROM 🌈

-

(yeah. nothing. it inherits from nobody, it's self-made, main character energy 😌)

🍓 ADDITIONAL TYPEDEF 🍓

The type FBB::Manipulator is a little shorthand bestie, you can use it for:

std::ios_base &(*)(std::ios_base &)

which is literally the prototype of the standard io-manipulators like std::left. no cap.

💜 MANIPULATOR 💜

The following manipulator — heads up, it's not part of the FBB::Align class itself, it's defined in the FBB namespace — can be passed as an Align-object constructor argument, and can also be stored inside Align objects through, like, setManip:

  • FBB::center:
not me noticing the list is exactly one item long with a dangling colon 💀 it is what it is, that's what the page says, we respect the source.

🎀 CONSTRUCTORS 🎀

  • Align(Manipulator manip) — this one sets up an alignment that, once it's inserted into a Table, gets used for all of that table's elements. And here's the tea ☕: this general alignment type can be modified for specific columns and/or specific elements using the next few constructors, so it's giving "default setting, but you can overrule me";
  • Align(size_t column = 0, Manipulator manip = std::right) — this defines how the content of column column of a Table object is aligned. ⚠️ When you use this one, it's your responsibility as the programmer to make sure that column actually exists (i.e. the Table must have a column index column). The class is not gonna hold your hand, bestie;
  • Align(int row, size_t column, Manipulator manip) — this one defines the alignment of element [row][column] of a Table object. Before you use this constructor, table element [row][column] must already have been defined. For example, like:
Table tab{  3, Table::ROWWISE };
tab << "xx00x " << " x01x " << " x02xx" <<
        10 << 11 << 12;

tab << Align(1, 1, FBB::center);

Copy and move constructors (and assignment operators) are available too, so you can shuffle these around freely 🫶

🔥 OVERLOADED OPERATORS 🔥

  • operator size_t() const — returns the value representing a requested width of an element in a Table object.

⭐ MEMBER FUNCTIONS ⭐

  • size_t col() const — returns the object's column index;
  • bool hasRow() const — returns true if the object's member returns a sensible value;
  • size_t row() const — returns the object's row index;
  • Manipulator manip() const — returns the Manipulator stored in the object;
  • void setWidth(size_t width) — defines the field-width of the element(s) of a Table object that the Align object refers to;
  • void setManip(Manipulator manip) — changes the Manipulator that's currently stored in the object.

🌸 EXAMPLE 🌸

See the table(3bobcat) man-page. (yes, we're gatekeeping, go read it, it slaps 💖)

🧚 FILES 🧚

bobcat/align — defines the class interface

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

bobcat(7), csvtable(3bobcat), manipulator(3bobcat), table(3bobcat)

💀 BUGS 💀

None Reported. (a clean slate, we love to see it ✨)

🎀 BOBCAT PROJECT FILES 🎀

Debian Bobcat project files:

  • libbobcat6: debian package containing the shared library, changelog and copyright note;
  • libbobcat-dev: debian package containing the static library, headers, manual pages, and developer info;

👑 BOBCAT 👑

Bobcat is an acronym of Brokken's Own Base Classes And Templates. cute name, strong name, no notes 💅

This is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

Frank B. Brokken (f.b.brokken@rug.nl).

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💋

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