Welcome to the View Programming Guide.  This guide will tell you everything you need to know about working with Views in SproutCore.

Who Should Read This Guide

This guide is for anyone who is building a SproutCore application and who needs to create custom views or otherwise work with views beyond simply combining them together in the SproutCore ViewBuilder.  If you are simply building an application with the ViewBuilder, consult the SproutCore ViewBuilder Guide [forthcoming].

Outline

1. About Views
2. Using Views
   1. Creating Views
   2. Designing Views
   3. Extending Views
      1. The view creation process
      2. The view display process
      3. Creating views with children
      4. Using SC.Control
      5. Example
         1. Define a view with some properties to bind to a controller
         2. Mapping the input properties to display properties
         3. Writing 
3. Drawing in views
   1. CoreQuery
   2. Frames + ClippingFrames + Layout
   3. Animation
4. Handling Events
   1. Mouse Events
   2. Dragging
   3. Keyboard Events
5. Working with Panes
   1. Differences from Views
   2. Laying out panes
6. Working with CollectionViews
   1. Designing an item view
   2. Incremental Rendering
7. View Reference