Ian Bambury wrote: [...] > It might be helpful (well it would for me anyway) if you were to > describe the effect you were trying to get.
Simple enough, really: I want a progress bar with text over the top. > To some extent I think I understand, but I don't understand the reason > for the problem for absolute positioning. Using an AbsolutePanel would require me to pick a pixel size for the panel. Unfortunately, space is limited. Given that HTML doesn't do queryable font metrics, I cannot manually size the panel to fit the text inside. The normal solution here is to just make the panel bigger than necessary, but I can't do that for space reasons. The progress bar needs to tightly wrap the text. [...] > But certainly this time the quick answer is 'out of luck' because the > deck panel doesn't do that. It's an odd omission --- HTML and CSS should be able to produce the effect I need using raw DOM. This kind of widget is usually one of the primitives in most other widget sets I've seen, so I thought I should check before writing my own. -- ┌─── ｄｇ＠ｃｏｗｌａｒｋ．ｃｏｍ ───── http://www.cowlark.com ───── │ │ "They laughed at Newton. They laughed at Einstein. Of course, they │ also laughed at Bozo the Clown." --- Carl Sagan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
