Building a Reusable Dialog Box Component
A reusable component is capable of utilization in multiple places and contexts within a particular code base. Designing a reusable component is different from designing a single-purpose one in several ways. The most relevant one of these ways is that the reusable component’s functionality must be designed to be customizable by users without the basic code needing to be reinvented for it to be worked with.
We examined parts of DialogBox previously when we looked at how to wrap advancedTexture.getControlByName in a get or set accessor, so let’s build off that to make an important reminder/note.
Important note
The CONTROL_NAMES enumeration lists all the properties implemented by the DialogBox class, but there are more properties than there are controls. Getting or setting a property such as titleText or bodyText operates against a text control’s text property directly.
The key parts of our component are going to...
