I am creating a custom set of "form helper" classes that make form
creation easier. The biggest problem I'm having at the moment is the
positioning of elements relative to one another.
Normally I would do this by referencing
parent.nameofpreviouselement.y" but this relies on each element
having a unique name, and so breaks when I have multiple instances of
the class on the canvas. What's the best way of achieving relative
positioning across multiple instances?
Is it possible to give elements a unique name oninit so they don't
conflict, or is there a better way? (I could also do with giving the
edittext box a unique name so that it can be referenced later on by
the submit method, but as far as I'm aware the name attribute is
readonly and not scriptable.)
Simplified example:
// editext should be positioned to the right of the static text
<text name = "aUniqueName" width = "80" y = "20">Example: </text>
<edittext y = "${parent.aUniqueName.y}" x = "$
{parent.aUniqueName.width + 10 }" name = "anotherUniqueName" />
Thanks in advance for any thoughts on this.
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