Also, this discussion would be more appropriate for the gwt-google-apis
group. GWT contributors is for the developers of the Google Web Toolkit core
product.

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:13 AM, Eric Ayers <[email protected]> wrote:

> Have you tried the method map.checkResizeAndCenter()?
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:42 AM, jd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Actually I think that was a red herring - setting the parentElem style
>> just forced a re-render and changing the map size had the same effect.
>>
>> I think the problem is due to the map trying to initialize itself
>> before layout() is called.  If I add a holder panel like this:
>>
>>                SimplePanel holder = new SimplePanel();
>>                p.add(holder);
>>
>> and then add the map after layout() like:
>>
>>                p.layout();
>>
>>                MapWidget map = new MapWidget(LatLng.newInstance(50, 50),
>> 8);
>>                map.setWidth("100%");
>>                map.setHeight("100%");
>>                 holder.add(map);
>>
>> it works.
>>
>> I have one question about threading in the browser - I have used YUI
>> LayoutManager which is very similar to DockLayoutPanel.
>>
>> http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/layout/nested_layout.html
>>
>> If you want to nest layouts or use a map inside a layout you need to
>> register a listener for an onrender event. When I asked why, Dave
>> Glass said that although the JS is single threaded, the DOM elements
>> will not be created by serially so you must wait until the event fires
>> before you can safely layout nested items that depend on the parent
>> layout.
>>
>> Could this be a problem here also?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>> On Sep 28, 7:06 pm, jd <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > I have found the issue and am not sure how to fix it using the current
>> > API.  After setting 100% height and width on both the DockLayoutPanel
>> > and RootLayoutPanel the map still reported a span of 0 and did not
>> > render correctly.  In Safari's Inspector I could see that the only
>> > element without 100% height and width was the generated "layout
>> > parent" element but after changing this in using the inspector it
>> > worked.
>> >
>> > So I think I need to be able to access the Layout.parentElem to modify
>> > its style.
>> >
>> >>
>>
>
>
> --
> Eric Z. Ayers
> Google Web Toolkit, Atlanta, GA USA
>



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Google Web Toolkit, Atlanta, GA USA

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