Hi Andreas,

may I come back to your code? I have build my chess game on your idea
using SimplePanels for the cells. It always worked great, but today I
found that it looks ugly under IE6. What would you do in this case? Is
IE6 so old that you can ignore it?

Thanks
Magnus

On Jun 28, 12:24 pm, andreas <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here's code I'd use to create a simplistic chess board:
>
> // the chess board with no spaces
> Grid cb = new Grid(10, 10);
> cb.setCellPadding(0);
> cb.setCellSpacing(0);
> cb.setBorderWidth(0);
>
> // assembles the board by inserting colored panels
> for (int i = 1; i < 9; i++) {
>     // panels of the top row
>     SimplePanel pHTop = new SimplePanel();
>     pHTop.setPixelSize(40, 20);
>     pHTop.getElement().getStyle().setBackgroundColor("red");
>
>     // panels of the bottom row
>     SimplePanel pHBottom = new SimplePanel();
>     pHBottom.setPixelSize(40, 20);
>     pHBottom.getElement().getStyle().setBackgroundColor("red");
>
>     // panels of the left column
>     SimplePanel pVLeft = new SimplePanel();
>     pVLeft.setPixelSize(20, 40);
>     pVLeft.getElement().getStyle().setBackgroundColor("green");
>
>     // panels of the right column
>     SimplePanel pVRight = new SimplePanel();
>     pVRight.setPixelSize(20, 40);
>     pVRight.getElement().getStyle().setBackgroundColor("green");
>
>     // insert the border cells
>     cb.setWidget(0, i, pHTop);
>     cb.setWidget(9, i, pHBottom);
>     cb.setWidget(i, 0, pVLeft);
>     cb.setWidget(i, 9, pVRight);
>
>     for (int j = 1; j < 9; j++) {
>         // the inner chess board panels
>         SimplePanel cP = new SimplePanel();
>         cP.setPixelSize(40, 40);
>         // switches between black and white
>         if (j % 2 == 0) {
>             cP.getElement().getStyle().setBackgroundColor(
>                             i % 2 == 0 ? "black" : "white");
>         } else {
>             cP.getElement().getStyle().setBackgroundColor(
>                             i % 2 == 0 ? "white" : "black");
>         }
>         cb.setWidget(i, j, cP);
>     }
>
> }
>
> // there it is
> RootPanel.get().add(cb, 1, 1);
>
> Programmatic styles are of course not as good as using stylesheets,
> consider this just a demo.
>
> On 28 Jun., 11:51, andreas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Where exactly are the vertical spaces? From what I see, there are no
> > spaces between the cells of the top and bottom row and the spaces
> > between the cells in the left and right column are of the same color
> > as the image background, so I assume there are actually also no
> > spaces, correct me on this one?
>
> > For better debug you could also assign a border and background color
> > to the Grid. If none of these colors will be visible you can be sure
> > that there are no spaces or anything left.
>
> > For the inner cells I can not say if there are any spaces.
>
> > Also I assume your style "pnl-r" adds the red border to the Grid? If
> > there were any spaces left caused by the border width you would see a
> > red Grid.
>
> > I think you got what you wanted...
>
> > BTW: I think you do not need to set the cell dimensions manually; Grid
> > will automatically adjust cell dimensions so that the cell widgets
> > fit, in other words a columns width for example will be adjusted so
> > that the cell widget with the biggest width is completely visible;
> > same goes for rows and heights and so on
>
> > BTW2: the two for-blocks in init() can be realized in one single for-
> > block since they iterate over exactly the same interval (0-9)
>
> > On 28 Jun., 11:27, Magnus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > Here is the screenshot:
>
> > >http://yfrog.com/j7chessboardj
>
> > > Magnus

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