Can I get some more response on these issues. Is there any support available or 
any documentation on design time and runtime details ?

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Chetan Sachdev
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--- In [email protected], Jeffry Houser <j...@...> wrote:
>
> 
>  By "Live Preview" you mean the design view, correct?  The best answer I 
> can give for item 1 and 2 is that design view sucks. 
> 
> 
>  To address item 3.. 
> 
>   To resize the child components based on a size (width, height, 
> percentWidth, percentHeight) change in a component, I'd set a flag in 
> each property set method  (widthChanged = true ) and run 
> invalidateDisplayList.  Then in updateDisplayList you can resize the 
> size of the children to match the new size.
> 
>  I don't know if this will update properly in design view, though.  I 
> wouldn't expect design view to be 'running' the application and 
> executing component lifecycle methods. 
> 
> 
> cksachdev wrote:
> >
> > Hello everybody,
> > I am facing some issues in design time with my custom component.
> > Please find a description below:
> >
> > 1. If the width or height is set in the properties panel, live preview
> > is updated. If width/height is then deleted, live preview is not
> > updated and a click on the "update button" of the "design view"
> > interface is required. What could be the reason/solution ?
> >
> > 2. If the width of the component is set to a percentage (for example
> > 80%), the component is resized properly. If width is then changed
> > again to a lower value (for example 60%), live preview is not updated.
> > If it is set to an higher value instead, it works. Strange behaviour ?
> >
> > 3. I want my component's child component to resize automatically.
> > Like, if button has a long label, it should increase according to the
> > label size. How to achieve this. If I don't invoke setActualSize
> > method in child components, they are not displayed.
> >
> > Looking forward to a solution :)
> >
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> >
> > 
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