UI Graphics Utilities Overview

Provides miscellaneous user interface utility functions, relating to fonts, colours, and drawing.

The API is a simple library that is used by applications and other UI framework APIs.

Colour utilities are available from CColorArray, CColorList, and ColorUtils.

Font utilities are available from CCleanupStackableFont, FontUtils, ResourceUtils, and TLogicalFont. A family of classes derived from TFindWidthOfWidestTextItem find the pixel width for common items, such as days and digits, using a particular font.

CGulIcon packages two bitmaps, one each for an icon image and its mask.

Text and drawing utilities are available from TextUtils and DrawUtils.

• Utilities for help with finding text are available from CTulAddressStringTokenizer.

• Utilities for help with loading and formatting resource strings are available from TulTextResourceUtils

• Utilities for help with parsing and validating phone numbers are available from TulPhoneNumberUtils

• Utilities for help with reading strings from resource files are available from CTulStringResourceReader

• Utilities for help with rectangular areas are provided by TGulAlignment and TGulBorder.