splitLocation aside (more on that in a minute), I was talking about using TablePane. The preferred size is just a suggestion to the component's parent -- in the end, it's up to the container that is doing the layout to respect the preferred sizes of its children or not. Some containers do, and others don't. Thus, it's up to the container to say "I'm going to give 30% to X and 70% to Y," which is why I thought of TablePane -- it has a notion of relative sizing. If you elaborate of your use case for a relative preferred size, then maybe I'll see why TablePane doesn't work, but out of the gates, I'd expect it to work.
Moving on to splitLocation, a splitter is meant to be dragged. If you want the splitter to be fixed at 30%, then SplitPane isn't the right tool (again, TablePane is). If you want to *initialize* the splitter to 30%, then that's a different beast. In that case, I'd use ApplicationContext.queueCallback() to queue a runnable that sets the splitLocation after the SplitPane has been laid out, at which time you'll know how to calculate the appropriate value for splitLocation. The problem with trying to say "I want the splitLocation to be 30%" is that if you say that before the the SplitPane has been laid out, its size is 0,0, and the splitLocation will likewise be 0. If you say it after it's been laid out, then we don't need the relative semantics, because you can just do the math yourself. -T On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Niclas Hedhman <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 7:07 PM, Todd Volkert<[email protected]> wrote: > > TablePane supports laying out its children using relative width and > height - > > might it satisfy your use case? > > Are you talking about using TablePane, or applying the same semantics > elsewhere? > > using TablePane --> No, I actually would like to have it for pS and > splitLocation of SplitPane. > > same semantics --> I need to look at TablePane closer to have an opinion. > > > Cheers > -- > Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer > http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java > > I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er > I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc > I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug >
