# enaml.widgets.flow_area

Classes

`FlowArea` | A widget which lays out its children in flowing manner, wrapping around at the end of the available space.

class enaml.widgets.flow_area.FlowArea(parent=None, **kwargs)

  Bases: `Frame`

  A widget which lays out its children in flowing manner, wrapping around at the end of the available space.

  direction

    The flow direction of the layout.

  align

    The alignment of a line of items within the layout.

  horizontal_spacing

    The amount of horizontal space to place between items.

  vertical_spacing

    The amount of vertical space to place between items.

  margins

    The margins to use around the outside of the flow area.

  hug_width

    A FlowArea expands freely in width and height by default.

  hug_height

    How strongly a widget hugs it’s height hint. This is equivalent to the constraint:

        (height == hint) | hug_height

  proxy

    A reference to the ProxyFlowArea object.

  flow_items()

    Get the flow item children defined on this area.

  activated

    An event fired when an object’s proxy is activated. It is triggered once during the object lifetime, at the end of the activate_proxy method.

  background

    The background color of the widget.

  border

    The border to apply to the frame. This may not be supported by all toolkit backends.

  destroyed

    An event fired when an object has been destroyed. It is triggered once during the object lifetime, just before the object is removed from the tree structure.

  enabled

    Whether or not the widget is enabled.

  initialized

    An event fired when an object is initialized. It is triggered once during the object lifetime, at the end of the initialize method.

  name

    Export the ‘name’ attribute as a declarative member.

  style_class

    The style class to which this item belongs. Multiple classes can be separated with whitespace. An empty string indicates the widget does not belong to any style class.