"em's" did the trick for setting the box sizes.
Regarding the scrollbox, there is no property to give you the width of
the box minus the scrollbars. My interface is a gantt chart view for
sunbird/lightning. It uses three scrollboxes to provide a "header" at
the top and left of the main scrollbox. The top header (with dates) is
sync'd to the horizontal scroll position of the main box, and the left
header (with event/task titles) is sync'd to the vertical scroll of the
main box. The effect is similar to using "freeze panes" in excel.
The "header" scrollboxes need a spacer element at the end of their
content that is the same width as the scrollbar in the main scrollbox in
order to keep all of the content aligned between the two boxes. So I
have to set the width (or height) of these spacers dynamically based on
the system scrollbar widths.
I think that if xul elements had a "ScreenWidth" and "ScreenHeight"
property giving the width/height currently visible onscreen (similar to
ScreenX and ScreenY), you could calculate this more easily.
Thanks,
Joe B
2009-06-15 6:24 PM, Neil wrote:
Joe Brochu wrote:
I am looking for an easy way to get system fonts and sizes for
explicitly setting box sizes within a stack to dynamically
accommodate various native OS's. Are there any shortcuts or global
variables available within the Mozilla framework to reference this
information?
I could probably create a piece of dummy text with no formatting and
get numbers from there, but I'm hoping for something more elegant. I
also don't want to redraw everything 3 times!
It's not clear what you're trying to do, but maybe you could add an
extra layer to your stack (but with visibility: hidden; so that it
doesn't paint) that includes your dummy text which will cause it to be
the correct size.
I could also use something similar for getting scrollbar widths.
Perhaps you could include a xul:scrollbar element in your document and
measure that?
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