Correct - this is by design. In Pivot, a window's size is defined by its
preferred width and height properties rather than the actual width and height
properties. This is because, like all other components, a window relies on its
parent container (an instance of Display) to set its size. During layout,
DisplaySkin sets the size of the window to its preferred size, whether
explicitly defined by the caller or determined by the window's skin. When an
explicit preferred size is not set, TerraFrameSkin (which TerraDialogSkin
extends) reports a preferred size based on the size of its content. The
"resizable" style is ignored in this case. However, if either preferred width
or height is set, the flag is respected.
This is different from AWT/Swing, which uses the pack() method to size a window
to its content. In Pivot, packing happens automatically when one or both
preferred dimensions is not set.
Hope this helps.
Greg
On May 26, 2010, at 12:11 PM, Chris Bartlett wrote:
> I've been struggling for a few hours trying to figure out how to make a
> org.apache.pivot.wtk.Dialog resizable. (Using a copy of the 1.5 trunk
> refreshed earlier today)
>
> Using org.apache.pivot.tutorials.windows.Windows as a base, I modified
> 'dialog.wtkx' to include styles="{resizable:true}" in the Dialog
> element.
>
> This doesn't have any effect unless the preferredWidth and/or
> preferredHeight properties are also set.
> The code in org.apache.pivot.wtk.skin.terra.TerraFrameSkin.mouseMove()
> suggests this is deliberate.
>
> Am I missing something here as to why the preferred width & height are
> relevant, or should this be classified as a bug?
> IMHO settiing the resizable style should allow the Frame/Dialog to be
> resized (unless it is maximized).
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
>
>
