I'm also thinking about adding the size of the image to the DB. So I can at least set up my panel sizes correctly, and just let the pictures fill it in as they download.
On Jun 29, 8:14 am, Sean <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Adam, > > Thanks for all the great ideas. I also think it has to do with images > not being fully loaded. This has been my biggest hurdle with GWT. I > tend to use a lot of images, and rely a lot on image sizes, but they > aren't very reliable because of the fact that the image could be > initialized, without being downloaded yet. I didn't know Load Handlers > existed. That stinks it doesn't work well with IE. I think I do need > to look into using the CSS more with %'s. > > Thanks again for all the ideas! > > Sean > > On Jun 28, 5:02 am, Adam T <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You can generally hook into when a widget is ready in the DOM by > > overriding it's onLoad() method. > > > However, if you have Images you need to do more work as whilst the DOM > > aspect of the Image widget may be ready in DOM it may not have size as > > the actual image is not downloaded yet - your resizing is most likely > > working a second time around as images are also already cached and > > available immediately. > > > I can think of two options of the top of my head, there are probably > > more > > > a) use LoadHandlers on your Image(s) these will tell you when the > > Image has loaded and then you can trigger your resize (however, it's > > not 100% perfect with IE and the current version of GWT > > -http://code.google.com/p/google-web-toolkit/issues/detail?id=863&q=ie...) > > b) enforce Image size using CSS either directly on the Image, or put > > the Image widget in another container (SimplePanel, for example) and > > set Image to 100% and size of SimplePanel to what you require through > > CSS > > c) do what you're doing with a timer until approach in (a) is fixed in > > gwt > > > I wonder though if you can't achieve what you want just by using > > percentages in Style Sheet.... > > > Hope that helps > > > //Adam > > > On 27 Juni, 16:42, Sean <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'm having trouble with pictures loading fully to know a widgets full > > > size. I have my main website component as a Composite. It's got quite > > > a few pictures, including one large one. I place this main component > > > on an Absolute Panel. I have a Resize Listener to figure out how big > > > the Client Window is, and if it's larger then the main component, make > > > the Absolute Panel as big as the Client window and put the main > > > component in the middle of the ABS. > > > > It works perfectly when the page is cached, however, if it's not, the > > > size of the main component can be anywhere from 0-300-to1044(it's full > > > size) depending on what's loaded the first time I try to arrange them > > > all together. > > > > How can I, besides using a timer with an arbitrary time, know when all > > > of the main component's sub-components are loaded to know when to call > > > the resize function? > > > > Thank you! --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
