Crap, the email messed up my beautifully renditioned ASCII art of what I was drawing. Anyway, I was basically trying to show that there's a hanging tab off the main part of the container, effectively increasing the size of the container.
--- In [email protected], "Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've created a custom skin and applied it to a VBox. This skin isn't > just a regular border, but has some file-tab like protrusion on one > side. The border looks like: > > _______________________________________________ > | | > | | > -------------------------------| | > XXXXXX | | > ---------------- > > (The area with the X's shouldn't calculate in parent's child layout.) > > Now my question is, is there's something inside the skin that I can > set to mask off where controls are allowed to be laid out? Or, do I > just have to manually make sure that layout of controls in the parent > container are manually adjusted for my programmatic skin? > > What's the best way to deal with this. Ideally, my skin would notify > the container to a valid layout area. > > Thanks >
