Thanks again Gregor

But here again i need to use CSS for all positioning and layout. No
positioning or layout is supposed to be performed in the actual code.

On Dec 15, 6:09 pm, gregor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Aragorn,
>
> In this case I had to explicitly size the left component to 223px
> otherwise it just gets squashed to the width of "left" because of the
> right cell's 100% width. You can change this to work on percentages by
> changing the cell width argument for the right cell, but then the
> width of left will be variable proportional to the overall screen
> size. But in this case you can't just  write left.setCellSize
> ("223px","1%) in the way I did for the VP example. HTML sometimes
> treats widths slightly differently to heights.
>
> I would avoid direct pixel size calculations like the plague. You just
> need to get your head around basic HTML behaviour. Using noddy
> programs like this to sort out the behaviour you want is a good way to
> proceed. Start with a layout design, then do a simple test like this,
> then it is easy to put the layout into your real app.
>
> regards
> gregor
>
> public class SandBox implements EntryPoint {
>
>     private HorizontalPanel hPan = new HorizontalPanel();
>     private HTML left = new HTML("Left");
>     private HTML right = new HTML("right");
>
>     public void onModuleLoad() {
>
>         left.setStyleName("back-blue");
>         right.setStyleName("back-red");
>         // comment out for % wise spacing
>         left.setSize("223px","100%");
>         // comment in for % wise spacing
>         //left.setHeight("100%");
>         right.setHeight("100%");
>
>         hPan.add(left);
>         hPan.add(right);
>
>         // switch statements for % style spacing
>         hPan.setCellWidth(right,"100%");
>         //hPan.setCellWidth(right,"70%");
>
>         hPan.setBorderWidth(2);
>         hPan.setSize("100%","100%");
>         RootPanel.get().add(hPan);
>     }
>
> }
>
> .back-blue {
>     background-color: lightblue;
>
> }
>
> .back-red {
>    background-color: red;
>
> }
>
> .back-green {
>    background-color: green;
>
> }
>
> On Dec 15, 4:38 am, aragorn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I tried using a horizontal panel as a main panel with wisth and height
> > to 100%. Inside it i created two different verticalpanels. The one on
> > left hand side has fixed width set to 233 pixels using css. Now the
> > right child panel should occupy the remainng space in the screen. I
> > tried setting width to 100% in css as well as in gwt code. It doesnt
> > work. By default a panel occupies only the space its content requires.
> > So an empty panel doesnt have much width even if it occupies the
> > entire height.
> > Inside the rightside panel i have to use 2 child widgets which occupy
> > entire width. How should i got about it?Is there a way to get window
> > dimesnions in css so that i can calculate the width in pixels in the
> > css itself?
>
> > On Dec 15, 2:10 am, gregor <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > AFAIK there is no way you can disable the internal ScrollPanels in
> > > HSP. HSP internally puts each widget (left & right) inside a
> > > ScollPanel automatically for you, and if either left of right widgets
> > > grow they will kick in, end of. HSP is also declared final, so it is
> > > impossible to extend the class to attempt to modify this behaviour.
>
> > > If you want to completely disable HSP resizing (i.e you do not want
> > > the user to able to move the splitter) why use HSP? Why not use a 2
> > > cell HorizontalPanel with a fixed left cell size and the right 100%
> > > width?
>
> > > On Dec 14, 10:32 am, aragorn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > I am using a horizontalSplitPanel to divide my window into two parts-
> > > > left part has fixed width while the right one occupies the entire
> > > > remaining space. I want to hide the fact that i have used SplitPanel
> > > > by  removing the default scrollbars the appear whenever the inner
> > > > panels go out of size and disabling resizing capability of the
> > > > splitPanel. Is there a way to achieve it? I definitely need a way to
> > > > remove the scrollbars.
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