this thread should be of interest to you:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit/browse_thread/thread/7fca5ad288a2a415/c6b352619dbc4e0e?q=davidroe+FastContainer&lnk=ol&;
/dave
On Nov 11, 2:56 pm, "seven.reeds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am trying to do something that I'm sure breaks a million rules,
> protocols, standards, covenants, agreements and pinky-swears.
>
> Given the default TabPanel, I can get the embedded TabBar. That
> TabBar
> is a HorizontalPanel with at least two extra "td"s (on in the front
> and the "last" one). The last table cell has a width of 100% set in
> the widget code.
>
> Now, I know I have broached this topic a couple of times over the
> past two-ish years but all that empty real-estate in the "last"
> cell is a tempting target in which to stuff text or a widget.
>
> I have faked this behavior by rolling my own TabPanel-like class with
> my own spin on the TabBar formatting. For various reasons though I am
> revisiting the initial question.
>
> Can I basically do a "setWidget()" on the last cell of the
> TabPanel.TabBar?
>
> My current answer is yes and no. Yes, in that i can crawl through the
> DOM and find the last TD cell of the TabBar and I can "appendChild()"
> into that element and stuff in "a widget". However, the events
> associated with the assigned widget are not happening.
>
> For example
>
> TabPanel tp = new TabPanel()
> TabBar tb = tp.getTabBar();
>
> tp.add(new HTML("one"), "1");
> tp.add(new HTML("two"), "2");
> tp.add(new HTML("three"), "3");
>
> Button test = new Button("text", new ClickListener() {
> public void onClick(Widget sender) {
> Window.alert("testing");
> }
>
> });
>
> setLastTabBarElement((Widget) test);
>
> public void setLastTabBarElement(Widget widget) {
> Element e = tb.getElement();
> int i = 0;
>
> while ((i = DOM.getChildCount(e)) > 0) {
> e = DOM.getChild(e, i - 1);
> }
>
> DOM.appendChild(e, widget.getElement());
>
> }
>
> Now, I know I am prolly not using the correct CamelCase. I suspect
> that there is a better way to find the last TD cell of the tabBar --
> but I don't know what that might be -- I would like to know though.
>
> I have way too much code to post all of it here but the example above
> is very similar to what I am trying to do. The biggest difference
> is that i am trying to plug in a Composite widget instead of a
> simple button.
>
> The end result is that my Widget appears in the correct place in the
> tabBar but clicking on the elements does nothing.
>
> ideas?
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