The concept of a FillPane has come up before. But since we have a couple other containers that can do the same thing (StackPane, ScrollPane, TablePane), it never seemed worth it. But it would certainly be easy enough to add.
On Aug 19, 2011, at 1:56 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb wrote: > In some places right now I'm using a simple BoxPane to wrap a bunch of > other components as children of CardPane that itself is being used to > populate "pages" of a bigger dialog template. But, although BoxPane is > simple, it sizes itself to its children's sizes except that if "fill" is > true it will expand in the orthogonal direction to fill the space. In > order to fill the space I know I can use TablePane or GridPane, but the > extra "stuff" required in my BXML files makes it awkward to do a simple > replacement. We're talking hundreds of places now in the code.... > > > > So, what I was thinking of was a "FullSizePane" (name is negotiable) > that does the equivalent of a one-row, one-column TablePane with width > and height of "1*" to just be a simple wrapper of other components. > That way, an embedded ScrollPane would fill up the space without having > to be given preferred sizes (that might or might not match the > container's size). This would be a simple name change in my BXML files > (from "BoxPane" to "FullSizePane") so the replacement would be easy. > > > > Am I thinking correctly? Do you think this would be useful enough to > include in Pivot? Or is there some other (simple) way to achieve this > effect without a new component? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Roger Whitcomb > > Architect, Engineering > > Ingres Corporation > > roger.whitc...@ingres.com <mailto:roger.whitc...@ingres.com> > > > > PHONE +1 650.587.5596 > > FAX +1 650.587.5550 > > > > www.ingres.com <http://www.ingres.com/> > > > > This transmission is confidential and intended solely for the use of the > recipient named above. It may contain confidential, proprietary, or > legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, > you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or > distribution is strictly prohibited. If you have received this > transmission in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and > delete the original transmission and all copies from your system. > > >
