XUI Problems

["skip@theDevers" <sk...@thedevers.org>]

I am having problems with XUI for complex nested layouts.  If the layout is
simple (mostly flat) everything works fine.  But, with multiply nested
border layout containers, it screws up (for me).

I prototyped the thing in Netbeans in an hour, then copied the dimensions
into an XUI project, so I am sure they are all right.

Here is a snippet of the XUI code:

<XPage next="checkout" layout="Border">
  <Layout hgap="0" vgap="0"/>
  <Components>
  <Panel name="centerPanel" constraint="Center" border="0" layout="Border">
	<Panel name="centerTopPanel" h="200" constraint="North" opaque="true"
border="1" layout="Grid">
	  <Layout hgap="0" vgap="0" rows="1" columns="2" />
	  <Panel name="centerTopLeftPanel" style="prompt" w="352" h="200"
opaque="true" border="1">
...
	  </Panel>
	  <Panel name="centerTopRightPanel" style="prompt" w="352" h="200"
opaque="true" border="1" layout="Border">
...
	  </Panel>
      </Panel>
	<Panel name="centerCenterPanel" h="300" constraint="Center" opaque="false"
border="1">
...
      </Panel>
...
    </Panel>
    <Panel name="southPanel" w="1024" h="40" constraint="South"
opaque="false" border="0">
...
    </Panel>
    <Panel name="westPanel" w="320" h="636" constraint="West" border="1"
layout="Grid">
...
    </Panel>
  </Panel>

(What I am doing with all this is essentially duplicating the layout of the
Orders-Order Entry screen.)

This displays "sorta" ok (so long as I don't change anything) in the GUI
editor, but when I run it, the  "centerPanel" at the top has nothing in it.

I tried this with only dimensions in the "westPanel" and no dimensions
anywhere else, as well as explicit and carefully calculated dimensions for
all.  Nothing has worked.

I now have four days screwing with this (just trying to layout the
containers) and I am ready to give it up and hand code it in Java (which
will take a couple hours at most), but I'd really like to do it in XUI for
compatibility reasons.

I have tried both using the GUI editor (Netbeans and Eclipse flavors) and
hand coding the XML.  No joy with either method.

I have tried 2.06. 2.07 and the 3.0 versions.

Anyone have a hint or two?  I would especially like to find some
documentation of the XML property definitions.

Skip

Re: XUI Problems

[Scott Gray <le...@gmail.com>]

Your best bet would be to try the lists/forums at XUI, I doubt you'll find
much specialist knowledge on the subject here.

Regards
Scott

On 20/09/2007, skip@theDevers <sk...@thedevers.org> wrote:
>
> I am having problems with XUI for complex nested layouts.  If the layout
> is
> simple (mostly flat) everything works fine.  But, with multiply nested
> border layout containers, it screws up (for me).
>
> I prototyped the thing in Netbeans in an hour, then copied the dimensions
> into an XUI project, so I am sure they are all right.
>
> Here is a snippet of the XUI code:
>
> <XPage next="checkout" layout="Border">
>   <Layout hgap="0" vgap="0"/>
>   <Components>
>   <Panel name="centerPanel" constraint="Center" border="0"
> layout="Border">
>         <Panel name="centerTopPanel" h="200" constraint="North"
> opaque="true"
> border="1" layout="Grid">
>           <Layout hgap="0" vgap="0" rows="1" columns="2" />
>           <Panel name="centerTopLeftPanel" style="prompt" w="352" h="200"
> opaque="true" border="1">
> ...
>           </Panel>
>           <Panel name="centerTopRightPanel" style="prompt" w="352" h="200"
> opaque="true" border="1" layout="Border">
> ...
>           </Panel>
>       </Panel>
>         <Panel name="centerCenterPanel" h="300" constraint="Center"
> opaque="false"
> border="1">
> ...
>       </Panel>
> ...
>     </Panel>
>     <Panel name="southPanel" w="1024" h="40" constraint="South"
> opaque="false" border="0">
> ...
>     </Panel>
>     <Panel name="westPanel" w="320" h="636" constraint="West" border="1"
> layout="Grid">
> ...
>     </Panel>
>   </Panel>
>
> (What I am doing with all this is essentially duplicating the layout of
> the
> Orders-Order Entry screen.)
>
> This displays "sorta" ok (so long as I don't change anything) in the GUI
> editor, but when I run it, the  "centerPanel" at the top has nothing in
> it.
>
> I tried this with only dimensions in the "westPanel" and no dimensions
> anywhere else, as well as explicit and carefully calculated dimensions for
> all.  Nothing has worked.
>
> I now have four days screwing with this (just trying to layout the
> containers) and I am ready to give it up and hand code it in Java (which
> will take a couple hours at most), but I'd really like to do it in XUI for
> compatibility reasons.
>
> I have tried both using the GUI editor (Netbeans and Eclipse flavors) and
> hand coding the XML.  No joy with either method.
>
> I have tried 2.06. 2.07 and the 3.0 versions.
>
> Anyone have a hint or two?  I would especially like to find some
> documentation of the XML property definitions.
>
> Skip
>
>