Thanks for that Greg it answers exactly what I wanted to know.

I don't have a TablePane.Filler component sounds like I have to do an update 
from SVN to get it. From what I can see from you example code it will be very 
useful.

On Fri, 7 Aug 2009 07:30:46 am Greg Brown wrote:
> Relative sizes apply to the amount of space available after all fixed
> sizes have been taken into account. If there is only one component,
> and it specifies a width of "1*", that component will be allocated
> 100% of the available space. If another component also specifies "1*",
> each one will get 1/2 the available space. If the other component
> specifies "2*", component 1 will get 1/3 and component 2 will get 2/3.
> We could have allowed the user to specify a percentage value, but the
> current approach avoids the issue of how to handle values that add up
> to more than 100.
>
> However, we didn't envision a use case for specifying a fractional
> value. What exactly are you trying to do? Perhaps you could use the
> new Filler component to meet your needs? For example, you could do this:
>
> <TablePane>
>      <columns>
>          <TablePane.Column width="1*"/>
>          <TablePane.Column width="1*"/>
>      </columns>
>      <rows>
>          <TablePane.Row>
>              <Label text="50%"/>
>              <TablePane.Filler/> <!-- gets the other 50% -->
>          </TablePane.Row>
>      </rows>
> </TablePane>
>
> Here, the label gets 50%, as does the filler component, which
> basically acts as an empty cell.
>
> On Aug 6, 2009, at 5:06 PM, Scott Lanham wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > The stock tracker example shows 1* having a relative size of 100%.
> > What is the
> > form of this argument used to get a relative size of less than 100%?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Scott.

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