Sure. Here's a totally contrived example, but it illustrates a simple use
case---setting the size of an included component.
Suppose my_box.wtkx is
<BoxPane xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk">
<Label text="Hey!" />
</BoxPane>
Suppose main_window.wtkx is
<Frame xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk" xmlns:wtkx="http://pivot.apache.org/wtkx";>
<content>
<BoxPane orientation="vertical">
<wtkx:include wtkx:id="box1" src="my_box.wtkx" />
<wtkx:include wtkx:id="box2" src="my_box.wtkx" />
</BoxPane>
</content>
</Frame>
I want box1 to have a preferred height of 20 and box2 to have a preferred
height of 50. Make sense?
Michael
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Greg Brown wrote:
That's right. We support static setters (attached properties) on
includes because you don't necessarily know what container the included
component might be placed in. But we don't support instance setters
because we assume that you will simply set them within the include
itself.
It is possible to change this behavior such that instance setters are
supported on an include - but is there any reason you can't put the
attributes on the root element of the include instead?
Greg
On Jul 1, 2010, at 5:47 PM, Michael Allman wrote:
Oh, yeah. I got confused with width and height. It's a flex thing.
So I just tried
<wtkx:include src="whatever.wtkx" preferredWidth="100" preferredHeight="100"/>
and that doesn't work either. I get a message saying "Instance property setters are
not supported for wtkx:include tag."
What do you think?
Cheers,
Michael
On Thu, 1 Jul 2010, Greg Brown wrote:
Setting properties on an include should work fine. However, if you want to
specify the size of a component, you should generally use preferredWidth and
preferredHeight rather than width and height. It is up to the container to
determine if/how the preferred values should be applied.
On Jul 1, 2010, at 8:53 AM, Michael Allman wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to set some properties on the root element of an included wtkx. A
classic case is setting width and height. How might I go about doing this?
<wtkx:include src="whatever.wtkx" width="100" height="100"/>
does not work.
Cheers,
Michael
