That answers my previous test requirement. Thanks!!! :)

Koen Deforche wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> We have now implemented layout managers that can be used in
> conjunction with WContainerWidgets. In CVS are now WGridLayout,
> WBoxLayout (and its related classes WHBoxLayout and WVBoxLayout), as
> well as WBorderLayout implementations that you can use to layout
> children in a WContainerWidget. As with Qt, these layout managers can
> be arbitrarily nested. The current behaviour of WContainerWidget has
> not changed, as long as you do not set a layout manager using
> setLayout().
>
> They package a whole lot of frustration to get them implemented, and
> hopefully will become useful to reduce daily frustration when dealing
> with layout in Wt applications. I would have wanted them to work even
> without JavaScript, but that turned out too much asked of CSS (the
> standard). Only Safari and to a lesser extent Firefox can render them
> without JavaScript. Not that that makes them the most compliant
> browsers (only the most useful ones!). Of all browsers, Opera seems to
> be implementing most closely the CSS standard with respect to dealing
> with width/height stuff. Unfortunately the standard is pretty lousy
> for vertical layout, leaving many things that could be useful
> undefined. Therefore, there is some JavaScript that will help in doing
> the vertical layout; in all cases the horizontal layout does not
> require JavaScript.
>
> There are still some things unfinished:
>  - alignment of a layout item within its layout cell;
>  - see if they do not interfere with Ext, and probably make them work
> nicely nested within Ext-based layout, and make sure the layouts
> update nicely whenever needed.
>
> To see them work for yourself, you could try the SimpleChat example,
> which has been adapted (and greatly simplified) to use WVBoxLayout and
> WHBoxLayout instead of the previous CSS absolute layout.
>
> Regards,
> koen
>
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