>
> So you've just demonstrated the recursive aspect of my question. If I set
> a preferred size on a component, and stick that component inside a Border,
> the latter now also has a notion of preferred size. If the Border is then
> placed inside a TablePane cell, why should the TablePane cause it to ignore
> that size?
>
> It doesn't. TablePane also tries to respect the preferred size of its
> cells. But when a TablePane isn't given its preferred size, it can't give
> its children their preferred sizes, either. So it resizes the cells based on
> the cell width and row height properties.
>
I'm clearly misunderstanding something here. Try running this toy example:
<Window title="Preferred size example" maximized="true"
xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk">
<TablePane>
<columns>
<TablePane.Column width="100" />
<TablePane.Column width="1*" />
</columns>
<TablePane.Row height="80">
<Border preferredWidth="50" preferredHeight="20"
styles="{backgroundColor:'blue'}"/>
<Label styles="{wrapText:true}"
text="Why is the blue box to my left 100px wide instead of its
requested 50px, and 80px high instead of 20?" />
</TablePane.Row>
</TablePane>
</Window>
Why does TablePane override the preferred size of the Border element?
