Hi, In Pivot 1.5, you don't need to do anything special in the skin to handle these values. They basically act as bounds on the calculated values - the bounding calculations are handled by the Component class.
However, there is a problem with this approach - the bounding values aren't taken into consideration when calculating a constrained preferred size. So, in Pivot 2.0 these properties will be replaced with explicit max/min size properties. Applicable Pivot 2.0+ skins will need to respect these values: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PIVOT-473 Just out of curiosity, have you looked at TablePane? It is meant to address the same use cases as a DockPanel, but is more flexible. Greg On Jun 22, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Gregory Lampshire wrote: > What are these used for or at least, how should they be honored in layout? > > > > I wrote a quick and dirty DockPanel component which works fine but I was > wondering if I should checking those values for some reason. Or are they > consulted somewhere else!?!? Or should I be using them in my preferredWidth > and preferredHeight methods? >
