Again, my sincere apologies for disappearing for an extended period.
This looks like a handy tip, and I will keep it in my back pocket for
when I'm working with datagrids. Thanks for that. The problem I've been
having, though, is with Grid rather than DataGrid. A bit of a different
beast. ;-)
--
Martin Cooper
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of simonjpalmer
Sent: Sunday, April 15, 2007 1:53 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [flexcoders] Re: Grid columns of fixed and equal width
Since you asked so nicely... here's what I understand about
column
widths in the datagrid control after some experimentation.
First off it is the width property of the DataGridColumn that
I'm
talking about.
If you put a value in the definition of all columns, when they
get
rendered the relative size of the column widths is honored, even
through scaling of the width of the grid itself, so the widths
seem to
be treated as proportions.
If you leave one or more of them blank the widths are treated as
pixels as far as I can tell.
What I routinely now do is have a numbering scheme for the
widths
where I look at the narrowest column, call that, say, 10 then do
everything from there. Here is a fragment of code from my app
which
has nicely proportioned columns which keep their relative
proportions
as the window the datagrid is in changes size.
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Name" width="30"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Owner" width="25"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Potential" width="15"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Target" width="12" />
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="%" width="10" />
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Geography" width="15"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Sector" width="15"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Product" width="15"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Currency" width="7"/>
<mx:DataGridColumn headerText="Access" width="10"/>
So in your case I would be tempted to try 1, 1 and 1 for your
widths
and see what happens.
SP
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<mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> , "Alex Harui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> What happened when you gave each column the same fixed width?
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> Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Grid columns of fixed and equal
width
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>
>
> Pretty please? Even a response telling me that it's a bonehead
question
> and I'm a dolt for asking would tell me _something_. ;-)
>
>
>
> Thanks!
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>
>
> --
>
> Martin Cooper
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>
>
>
>
>
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>
>
> From: [email protected]
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> To: [email protected]
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> Subject: [flexcoders] Grid columns of fixed and equal width
>
> What is the "right" way to create a Grid that has a fixed
number
> of
> columns of equal width?
>
> What I need is a fixed 3-column layout to which I can
> dynamically add
> cells. Regardless of the content of the cells, the column
widths
> should
> remain the same. Also, the columns would need to resize when
the
> Grid is
> resized. I'm basing this on the Grid layout because I also
need
> the
> column spanning capability that Grid gives me.
>
> Any hints would be a great help in getting me going.
>
> For extra bonus points ... what I *really* want is something
> more like
> three VBoxes of equal width, so that the contents are not
forced
> to
> align vertically, as with a Grid, but where I also get the
> column
> spanning that a Grid gives me. (This is more like newspaper
> layout,
> except that I don't care about content flowing from one column
> to the
> next.) However working with a Grid will get me going for now.
>
> Thanks very much!
>
> --
> Martin Cooper
>
