If you want the table height to remain consistent, couldn't you wrap the table in a containing element (e.g. div) of a fixed height? That way, if you display the pager directly underneath the table for example, it will always stay in the same spot and just the table itself will shrink.
I prefer manstis' (Mike's) fix to the default behavior of AbstractPager. I couldn't agree more with Steve's remarks. To reiterate: when you page over, I would expect to see a new result at the start of the table. Yes, that means the table must shrink, but you can use CSS to deal with that. I think that the behavior of AbstractPager should be modified and manstis' implementation of setPageStart() should be the default. Perhaps a boolean configurable (restrictVisibleRowsToPageSize) should be added which allows for the user to utilize the current behavior of setPageStart(). On Friday, January 6, 2012 7:27:48 AM UTC-5, Emilian Bold wrote: > > I agree. The current GWT pagination seems to be more of a workaround. > They try to avoid having less items on the last page because it might > change the layout and the pager position. > > What should actually happen is that the table should maintain the full > height as if it has all the rows, but display only the few remaining > rows on the last page. > > Basically, the table should have the same height regardless of the > number of rows and the pager component should remain in place when > switching pages. > > I'm surprised there isn't an actual bugreport for this. > > --emi > > On Dec 21 2011, 3:16 am, Steve <stephen...@google.com> wrote: > > This behavior deviates from widespread usage of pagination across the > web > > so I don't see how it's desirable to do something unexpected by users > > unless it's clearly superior. > > > > When I navigate from one page to another it's because I want to see the > > next set of results/data and I expect the stuff at the top to be > different > > than what was on the previous page I was on. If it overlaps, then I have > to > > scan down and figure out where to start looking. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
