Slide Layout

The presentation library relies on the layout library for layout. As such, all layouts from there can also be used in the presentation library. In addition to those, the presentation library provides a number of additional layouts to make creation of presentations easier.

Slide Styles

Some of the layout provided by the library are in the form of general slide-styles. These are intended to be used as the top-level layout of a slide (i.e. directly after the slide keyword), and provide rudimentary layout:

title <title>, <subtitle>
Creates a title slide containing the title of the presentation and a subtitle (or the name of the author). Uses a Grid layout that can be further extended if desired.
content <title>
Creates a slide with a title and space for additional elements. This slide is thus intended as a "regular" slide in the presentation. Uses a custom layout (CaptionLayout) that only supports one child component. As such, adding more than one element to the content causes other elements to be discarded.
columns <title>
Like content, but creates a ColumnLayout as the body, so that it is not necessary to create one separately.
grid <title>
Like content, but creates a Grid as the body, so that it is not necessary to create one separately.

As mentioned previously, the slide styles are simply functions that create suitable elements and layout. It is thus easy to create custom styles if desired.

Layout

Below is a list of the additional layout elements that the presentation library provides:

CaptionLayout
A layout for providing a caption at the top of a slide, and allocating the remaining space to a single element. Has the following attributes:
- layout.Cardinal align
  Alignment of the caption.
- core.Float space
  Space below the caption.
- core.Float contentLeftMargin
  Additional margin of the content.
- core.Float contentRightMargin
ColumnLayout
A layout that places elements in equally sized columns. The same effect is achievable with Grid, and this is therefore a simplified version of a Grid. The attribute padding dictates the space between each column.
RowLayout
A layout that places elements in rows, one after the other. The height of elements are used to place the elements. As such, it is useful to create a flow of different lines of elements (e.g. paragraphs and lists).

It has the following attributes:
- core.Float padding
  Space between rows.
- void left()
  Align elements to the left.
- void right()
  Align elements to the right.
- void center()
  Align elements to the center (default).
anchor <cardinal>
Anchors an element to the specified direction in a layout box that is larger than the minimum size of the element. This typically has the effect of causing the element to use its natural size instead of expanding to the container. Of course, the layout.Anchor has the same effect, this is just a convenience function for the layout.
Group
A Group makes a set of elements appear as once for the purposes of animations. As such, to animate multiple separate elements as a single unit, it is necessary to place them inside a group. Layout-wise, the Group does not perform any layout except allocating the same space to all its children. It is, of course, possible to use layout managers inside the group if desired.
WithBackground <color>
Add a background behind an element. Inherits from Group to allow animations.
WithBorder <color>
Add a border around an element. Inherits from Group to allow animations. Has the following members for manipulating the border:
WithCaption <text>, <cardinal>, <style>
Adds the caption <text> to an element, placing the caption at <cardinal> and using the style <style> to draw it. Inherits from Group to allow animations.

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