Hi Nathan, That is exactly the thing. GWT is much more than widgets and the provided ones should be the building blocks to extend. That is the message that comes from the team behind GWT. The problem I see is that some widgets are not designed to be easily extended and therefore they are not good building blocks. This leads to the integration of heavyweight third-party widget libraries (even for simple things) or, in the other hand, to the development of custom widgets to avoid this overhead. I expected that, with the new versions, this situation would change integrating most of the widgets of the incubator refined to fit the widget "framework" over which to build the new widgets.
Cheers, Alberto On Dec 8, 2:18 pm, Nathan Wells <[email protected]> wrote: > "Creating and maintaining custom widgets is discouraged" > > Really? I had the opposite impression. I understand why it might be > discouraged, but from everything I've heard the GWTers tend to assume > that they are only providing basic building blocks in the widgets > package. I could be wrong (and I would like to be; maintaining custom > widgets _is_ a pain), so if you have any references indicating > otherwise, let me know! > > On Dec 7, 2:34 pm, lemaiol <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I have recently started having a look at the GWT 2.0 RC2 version and > > found me once again frustrated trying to extend the SplitLayoutPanel. > > In version 1.4 we needed to do the same with the splitter panels and > > we thought that some of the reasons not to build more easy to extend > > Splitter panels (had to copy over a lot of code) had to do with the > > implementation substitution performed by the compiler. > > In this case, I miss setting the splitter position programmatically > > (or associated widget size) and setting the maximum splitter size > > (minimum is already possible to be set) in the SplitLayoutPanel. With > > the current implementation (a really simple one) the changes are not > > complicated. The only problem is, that as the widget is implemented, > > it is not possible to extend it properly. > > > Could somebody give some input on this? Why the SplitLayoutPanel is a > > basic part of the new layout system but does not allow extension > > easily? Creating and maintaining custom widgets is discouraged and a > > pain but the actual widgets are sometimes not designed even for > > trivial extension. > > > Feedback really appreciated, > > Alberto -- 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.
