Just catching up on email... To me, divider lines are more of a style
of the container (like in TablePane) than a component unto themselves.
I'd consider adding support in both FlowPane and BoxPane for a
"showDividerLines" style.
-T
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 3:55 PM, Greg Brown <gkbr...@mac.com> wrote:
> It could - we do something similar in TerraTabPaneSkin to rotate the
> buttons. I'm just saying I don't think it is worth the effort. Separator is
> more like a one-dimensional Border. There are other (simpler) ways to get
> vertical divider lines.
>
> On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Chris Bartlett wrote:
>
> But could the rotation code be part of the Separator component's
> paint/layout/'whatever magic happens when painting' code?
>
> paint() {
> if (orientation = VERTICAL) {
> // Swap the width & height values for the purposed of painting
> // ie, 20x100 would be painted horizontally within the bounds of
> 100x20
> }
> // Draw the component horizontally as normal, but to an image/buffer
> rather than the GUI
> if (orientation = VERTICAL) {
> // Rotate and possibly re-align the previously rendered image
> }
> // Paint the image to the GUI
> }
> On 11 September 2010 02:26, Greg Brown <gkbr...@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>> Good idea, but it wouldn't work. Decorators don't change the bounds of a
>> component. They only augment its appearance.
>> On Sep 10, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Chris Bartlett wrote:
>>
>> On 10 September 2010 19:05, Greg Brown <gkbr...@mac.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I was actually thinking that a new BoxPane.Divider class might be a
>>> better way to go. Separator has a "title" property that would be hard to
>>> support in a vertical orientation. Divider could simply mirror the
>>> orientation of the containing box pane.
>>
>> Is it worth considering using some sort of rotation decorator that would
>> rotate a horizontal Separator, including any title property +/- 90 degrees
>> to create a vertical one?
>> Chris
>>
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