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Fri, May 1 2015 5:55 AM | Permanent Link |
Matthew Jones | Tim,
Don't respond here, but I think the documentation for layouts will need to have a few well diagrammed examples so that we can understand the steps needed to make common layouts. I have tried, and for now failed, to set up a form with a panel at the top as the header, a panel at the bottom as a footer, and a page control as the main, scalable content, and another panel on the right with a sizer for optional info. I suspect I probably need another panel as parent for the middle items, but what I need is to be able to hit F1 in the layout properties and have the help show me a diagram for how to achieve what I need. I can see that this is going to save a lot of fiddly layout programming, but there is a learning curve. Thanks, Matthew |
Fri, May 1 2015 7:22 AM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | Matthew,
<< Don't respond here, but I think the documentation for layouts will need to have a few well diagrammed examples so that we can understand the steps needed to make common layouts. >> There will be, though please keep in mind that the docs are going to be a little thinner than I want in the initial release. There's just a lot of ground to cover in a small amount of time, so I'm going to have to build on things as it rolls on. << I have tried, and for now failed, to set up a form with a panel at the top as the header, a panel at the bottom as a footer, and a page control as the main, scalable content, and another panel on the right with a sizer for optional info. >> I've attached what you need (hopefully it works for you - I've changed a lot since the last build). However, be warned that there was a bug in the TSizer control when it came to resizing controls that were to the *right* of the sizer. It was doing things backward, but it's been fixed for the final release. << I suspect I probably need another panel as parent for the middle items, >> Nope, don't need such things with EWB 2. Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com Attachments: LayoutTest.wbp Unit1.wbf Unit1.wbs |
Fri, May 1 2015 8:06 AM | Permanent Link |
Matthew Jones | Tim Young [Elevate Software] wrote:
> << I have tried, and for now failed, to set up a form with a panel at > the top as the header, a panel at the bottom as a footer, and a page > control as the main, scalable content, and another panel on the right > with a sizer for optional info. >> > > I've attached what you need (hopefully it works for you - I've > changed a lot since the last build). However, be warned that there > was a bug in the TSizer control when it came to resizing controls > that were to the right of the sizer. It was doing things backward, > but it's been fixed for the final release. This is indeed perfect. Made me laugh that you had it so simply, and I was blundering. I shall study this to work it out. Thank you. |
Fri, May 1 2015 8:22 AM | Permanent Link |
Matthew Jones | Matthew Jones wrote:
> I shall study this to work it out. Okay, the thing that I was missing was the Layout order. Quite obvious really, but I was figuring that it would be top/middle/right/bottom as my components went visually top to bottom, but of course that is not what I was actually wanting, which is top, bottom, right, middle. Literally, to set the order that things are positioned, and then it all falls into place as you expect. So, big lesson here is that the layout is done in the order of the component's LayoutOrder property, zero being the first. Sounds so obvious, but I didn't get it right. |
Fri, May 1 2015 2:46 PM | Permanent Link |
Jim Gallagher | "Matthew Jones" wrote:
> Sounds so obvious, but I didn't get it right. Thanks for asking the question Matthew. I've been trying to keep quiet until the release, but I was agonizing over not understanding the "layout" (still not sure what "consumption" means). A working example goes a LONG way for me. -Jim |
Fri, May 1 2015 6:05 PM | Permanent Link |
Chris Holland SEC Solutions Ltd. Team Elevate | Jim Gallagher <> Wrote in message:
> "Matthew Jones" wrote: > >> Sounds so obvious, but I didn't get it right. > > Thanks for asking the question Matthew. I've been trying to keep quiet until the release, but I was agonizing over not understanding the "layout" (still not sure what "consumption" means). A working example goes a LONG way for me. > > -Jim > > Hi Jim, If you drop a component with layout 1 on a form and set the consumptionto be Right then when you drop another component with layout 2 it will appear to the right of the original component. If the original component had consumption set to bottom the next component will appear below it. -- Chris Holland ----Android NewsGroup Reader---- http://usenet.sinaapp.com/ |
Sat, May 2 2015 12:31 AM | Permanent Link |
Jim Gallagher | Chris Holland wrote:
>If you drop a component with layout 1 on a form and set the consumption >to be Right then when you drop another component with > layout 2 it will appear to the right of the original component. OK, it seems to do that, as long as the second component has "position" set. If I set basicPanel1.Consumption to "right" and basicPanel2.Position to "left" it jams the second component up against the right edge of the first. If I set basicPanel1.Consumption to "none" the second component jams up against the left edge of the parent form. I'm slowly catching on - there's a sweet spot with LayoutOrder, Consumption, Position and Stretch for everything I want to do, and at first everything I tried seemed to send the component to another dimension reachable only by the object inspector, but I think I'm starting to get the hang of it. Thanks for your help Chris (and Matthew, and of course Tim). -Jim |
Sat, May 2 2015 8:13 AM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | Jim,
One thing to know is that in the build that you have, when Position=ptNone, the control/element will *not* participate in the layout in terms of positioning (it will be absolutely-positioned and will ignore any other space consumption that has taken place prior to it in the layout order). I've since changed this so that Position=ptNone will still have the control/element participate in the layout - it will just use the control/element's Left/Top property settings to determine *where* in the available space the control will be positioned. I've added an example project that shows how you would do a layout using the various property settings. http://www.elevatesoft.com:8081/layout/layout.html Hopefully that helps shed some light on how things work. Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
Sat, May 2 2015 12:22 PM | Permanent Link |
Jim Gallagher | "Tim Young [Elevate Software]" wrote:
>http://www.elevatesoft.com:8081/layout/layout.html >Hopefully that helps shed some light on how things work. Yes! That is perfect, thanks. I don't know if it's intentional that only the upper right red panel has reset=true. Seriously, I only mention it in case it wasn't intentional. I will happily wait for the release for documentation and continue playing around with what I have now. I'm having a great time, and I think that Release 2 is going to be hugely successful, once the word gets out. -Jim |
Sun, May 3 2015 8:25 AM | Permanent Link |
Tim Young [Elevate Software] Elevate Software, Inc. timyoung@elevatesoft.com | Jim,
<< Yes! That is perfect, thanks. I don't know if it's intentional that only the upper right red panel has reset=true. Seriously, I only mention it in case it wasn't intentional. >> The Reset property (in conjunction with the Consumption property) is how you do flow layouts in EWB 2. Imagine a Z pattern for the red panels from top to bottom, and you get the idea.... << I will happily wait for the release for documentation and continue playing around with what I have now. I'm having a great time, and I think that Release 2 is going to be hugely successful, once the word gets out. >> Thanks, I hope you're right. Tim Young Elevate Software www.elevatesoft.com |
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