You don't want to use binding to set the width and height - that's what layout managers are for. The problem is that SplitPane doesn't have a preferred size (it is 0x0), so you need to put it in a container that will give it a size regardless of its preferred size value.
On Mar 5, 2011, at 11:41 AM, Daniel Ziltener wrote: > In that case there is one thing that really is missing: The possibility to > bind width and height (It tells me it isn't possible to use property binding > with those) > > 2011/3/5 Daniel Ziltener <[email protected]> > Yes, that works, thank you. > > 2011/3/5 Chris Bartlett <[email protected]> > > This has come up on the mailing list before, but I can't remember the details > off the top of my head. > > Daniel, > > I think you need to provide a preferredWidth & preferredHeight or perhaps > minimumWidth & minimumHeight. > > Anyway, this works for me. > > <Window title="Split Pane - Preferred Size" maximized="true" > xmlns:bxml="http://pivot.apache.org/bxml"; xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk"> > <BoxPane styles="{padding:8}"> > <SplitPane splitRatio="0.5" preferredWidth="400" preferredHeight="400"> > <left> > <Border title="Left" /> > </left> > <right> > <Border title="Right" /> > </right> > </SplitPane> > </BoxPane> > </Window> > > Chris > > On 5 March 2011 22:42, Daniel Ziltener <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm trying to put a SplitPane inside a BoxPane, but this doesn't work. I > tried literally everything, from wrapping it inside another container before > putting it inside the BoxPane over manually setting the size but nothing > works. It seems like it gets a height of 0, even when manually setting it to > another value. It only seems to work when put in the Window tag as the only > component. > What am I doing wrong? > > >
