Roger,
You are an angel, thank you! That was indeed very helpful.
Ok so suggestions? Here it comes…
1. First thing. Don't worry about anything beyond step 1. - which is to
compile as thorough a compendium of documentation as you can for the current
versions.
2. Keeping it in sync and up to date is a worry that is great for providing
obstacles daunting enough to keep one from not doing anything to begin with.
3. Once a thorough doc representation is compiled, organized and available -
the next step is maybe marking sections with a legend to show which are
affected by
current changes. This can eventually be automated - such that when the
documentation is generated from some base, it can automatically update symbols
shown
in the document which represent or explicitly show markers pointing to
current builds/versions/bug-fixes etc.
4. Next, you could provide a way to have the author of fixes link their
documentation changes to a check in, then when builds are executed, the
documentation can be
automatically updated - relevant to that section.
But I would take baby steps. Step one is definitely needed and would be very
widely appreciated.
Sorry I can't be more detailed about specific processes or tools - I haven't
researched it myself :)
David
On Oct 9, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Roger L. Whitcomb <roger.whitc...@actian.com> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Well, I wish there was *one* place to get it. I end up using
> the Javadoc (from here <http://pivot.apache.org/2.0.3/docs/api/> for the
> current version), and the Component Explorer demo
> <http://pivot.apache.org/demos/component-explorer.html> with which you can
> play around with values.
>
> The general meaning of "-1" and "1*" (specifically in a
> TablePane) is this: "-1" means use the "natural" size of the children, so
> the parent sizes itself to the max size of the children. A value with "*"
> after it means it is part of "relative" sizing. How that works is this:
> take all the "-1" and "nn" values and compute them, then subtract that total
> from the available space. Then add up the total of all the relative values
> and distribute each of the according to the ratio of each "*" value relative
> to the total of all the relative values. So, if there were 5 columns sized
> "-1", "20", "1*", "2*", and "3*", they each would get sized to:
>
> 1) The max size of the children in column one.
>
> 2) An absolute value of 20 pixels for column two.
>
> 3) 1 / (1 + 2 + 3) = 1/6 of the remaining space for column three.
>
> 4) 2/6 = 1/3 of the space for column four.
>
> 5) 3/6 = ½ of the space for column five.
>
> So, specifically if you have one column (or one row) sized as "1*" it would
> take all the available space (1 / 1 = 100%).
>
>
>
> Thank you for using Pivot (in spite of shortcomings in the
> doc)! I am going to cross-post to the Users list for other's information
> too. Please feel free to ask and/or make suggestions for improvements. So,
> what would you have in mind for this "Actual" reference? Keep in mind that
> we probably would need to automatically generate it in order to keep it in
> sync with ongoing changes ....
>
>
>
> HTH,
>
> ~Roger
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Ray [mailto:david....@barchart.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 3:43 PM
> To: dev@pivot.apache.org
> Subject: Need Help!
>
>
>
> Hi All,
>
>
>
> I'm new to Pivot and I was hoping someone could pleeeeeeeeeeeeaaase (with
> sugar on top) :) point me to an <em>Actual</em> reference to maybe a list of
> all style key/values per object - mmm maybe what the heck "-1" and "1*" mean
> in a layout?
>
>
>
> You know, stuff that people just starting out with their telepathy powers
> might have trouble figuring out? :P
>
>
>
> Website gives examples with limited source (sometimes) but no definitive
> reference?
>
>
>
> Thank you, and again sorry for bothering the dev peeps....
>
>
>
>
>
> David
>
