Thanks Joel. My current workaround is to use the "old" Horizontal/VerticalPanel widgets, so "no harm, no foul". Looking forward to more examples!
Stuart On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:20 PM, Joel Webber <[email protected]> wrote: > Stuart, > > Hiding/showing layers is slightly tricky (or at least non-obvious). I'm > still working on examples in the documentation that should make it a lot > clearer. > > In a nutshell, you need to actually show/hide the layer elements > themselves. You can get the layer's element (referred to as a widget's > "container" element) using *LayoutPanel.getWidgetContainerElement(Widget). > Showing/hiding this element rather than the widget itself should get rid of > any event problems. I'll make a point to add an example of this to the > documentation. > > I didn't want to require the existence of the elements, but it proved > impossible to support arbitrary CSS any other way (the existence of these > elements makes it possible to efficiently account for margins, borders, and > padding on the child widgets' elements). > > Cheers, > joel. > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 2:33 AM, Stuart Moffatt > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> Env: GWTRC2 Safari Mac OS X. >> >> UI binding: >> {{{ >> <g:LayoutPanel ui:field="layoutPanel"> >> <g:layer> >> <myclient:MyEditor ui:field='myEditor'/> >> </g:layer> >> <g:layer> >> <myclient:MyLister ui:field='myLister'/> >> </g:layer> >> </g:LayoutPanel> >> }}} >> >> These two custom widgets sit right on top of each other visually. The >> reason is I want them to "replace" each other. Since MyLister is added >> last, I can trigger events from it. When I fire a certain event from >> MyLister, MyLister hides via setVisible(false) and MyEditor displays >> via setVisible(true) However, because MyEditor is a layer "below" >> MyLister, all events are hidden. E.g. onClick in widget in MyEditor >> does not fire. >> >> Is there any way (declaratively or programmatically) to swap the >> positions of the layers so that the visible layer is "on top" and can >> respond to events? >> >> sfm >> >> -- >> http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors >> > > -- > http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
