Your best bet would be to try the lists/forums at XUI, I doubt you'll find much specialist knowledge on the subject here.
Regards Scott On 20/09/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am having problems with XUI for complex nested layouts. If the layout > is > simple (mostly flat) everything works fine. But, with multiply nested > border layout containers, it screws up (for me). > > I prototyped the thing in Netbeans in an hour, then copied the dimensions > into an XUI project, so I am sure they are all right. > > Here is a snippet of the XUI code: > > <XPage next="checkout" layout="Border"> > <Layout hgap="0" vgap="0"/> > <Components> > <Panel name="centerPanel" constraint="Center" border="0" > layout="Border"> > <Panel name="centerTopPanel" h="200" constraint="North" > opaque="true" > border="1" layout="Grid"> > <Layout hgap="0" vgap="0" rows="1" columns="2" /> > <Panel name="centerTopLeftPanel" style="prompt" w="352" h="200" > opaque="true" border="1"> > ... > </Panel> > <Panel name="centerTopRightPanel" style="prompt" w="352" h="200" > opaque="true" border="1" layout="Border"> > ... > </Panel> > </Panel> > <Panel name="centerCenterPanel" h="300" constraint="Center" > opaque="false" > border="1"> > ... > </Panel> > ... > </Panel> > <Panel name="southPanel" w="1024" h="40" constraint="South" > opaque="false" border="0"> > ... > </Panel> > <Panel name="westPanel" w="320" h="636" constraint="West" border="1" > layout="Grid"> > ... > </Panel> > </Panel> > > (What I am doing with all this is essentially duplicating the layout of > the > Orders-Order Entry screen.) > > This displays "sorta" ok (so long as I don't change anything) in the GUI > editor, but when I run it, the "centerPanel" at the top has nothing in > it. > > I tried this with only dimensions in the "westPanel" and no dimensions > anywhere else, as well as explicit and carefully calculated dimensions for > all. Nothing has worked. > > I now have four days screwing with this (just trying to layout the > containers) and I am ready to give it up and hand code it in Java (which > will take a couple hours at most), but I'd really like to do it in XUI for > compatibility reasons. > > I have tried both using the GUI editor (Netbeans and Eclipse flavors) and > hand coding the XML. No joy with either method. > > I have tried 2.06. 2.07 and the 3.0 versions. > > Anyone have a hint or two? I would especially like to find some > documentation of the XML property definitions. > > Skip > >
