Joel, is there a way to get the widget's default width/height? Maybe I do something wrong, but this code
layer.setTopHeight(0, Unit.PX, north.getOffsetHeight(), Unit.PX); does not work, returned height is too small. Thanks, George. On Aug 11, 10:38 pm, Joel Webber <[email protected]> wrote: > Amir, Kango, > A UI like Reader is very easy to formulate (it will be a lot easier when I > check in DeckLayoutPanel). If you imagine a DeckPanel where 100% height > actually works properly, you would write something like this: > > p.add(header, NORTH); > p.add(navPane, WEST); > p.add(footer, SOUTH); > p.add(content, CENTER); > > Amir's right to point out that this *doesn't* work if you don't want the > layout to be 100% height (or some other fixed height, but where there's no > scrollbar on the body element). But that actually already works just fine > with plain old CSS or DockPanels. It's the 100% height and interior > scrolling that's hard to do at present. > > Cheers, > joel. > > On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:34 PM, Kango_V <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Amir, this is the exact case I am working on. I'm trting to implement > > an interface not dissimilar to Google Reader. It has a footer at the > > bottom of the grid for next prev buttons. > > > Can this layout handle this? > > > Excellent work as always. I'm keenly following this. Can't get it > > quick enough :) > > > On Aug 10, 9:26 am, Amir Kashani <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Joel, > > > I love how this is turning out so far, great work. While this system > > handles > > > a vast majority of layout situations, correct me if I'm wrong, but I > > think > > > it breaks down with non-100% height layouts that require a footer. An > > > example: a header area, followed by a horizontally split content area > > (body > > > and side nav), followed by a footer. I can't think of a way you could > > > represent this using absolute positioning that would guarantee the footer > > > area isn't encroached upon. > > > > Any thoughts on how LayoutPanel would handle this? Maybe this doesn't > > fall > > > under "desktop-like" layouts and it's handled with floats (which aren't > > so > > > terrible in this particular case)? > > > > - Amir > > > > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 12:13 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Reviewers: jlabanca, > > > > > Please review this athttp://gwt-code-reviews.appspot.com/51830 > > > > > Affected files: > > > > A layout/Layout.gwt.xml > > > > A layout/client/Layout.java > > > > A layout/client/LayoutImpl.java > > > > A layout/client/LayoutImplIE6.java > > > > A layout/client/UserAgent.java > > > > A user/client/ui/HasAnimatedLayout.java > > > > A user/client/ui/HasLayout.java > > > > A user/client/ui/LayoutComposite.java > > > > A user/client/ui/LayoutPanel.java > > > > A user/client/ui/RootLayoutPanel.java > > > > M user/client/ui/Widget.java --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
