As Todd mentioned, it is up to the container to decide how (or if) a
component's preferred size will be used during layout. Swing layout
works the same way. TablePane allows you to specify the width and
height of a column or row as relative to the amount of unallocated
space, so I would suggest looking at that.
However, from your emails, it seems like your ideal UI would use split
panes, not table panes. Todd is the split pane expert, so I will defer
to him here. :-)
On Aug 4, 2009, at 1:24 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
Gang,
I think it would be nice that preferredWidth & preferredHeight could
be expressed in % of available space (if possible). Same probably goes
for many other properties, such as SplitPane.splitLocation
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