OK, scratch the styles element suggestion. It doesn't work - I knew I
should have done a little more due diligence before replying to your
email. :-)
When an element refers to a read-only dictionary, we can't determine
the type of the properties referred to by the element's attributes
(because Dictionary doesn't provide a "getType()" method). So, we
can't coerce it to the appropriate type. As a result, read-only
dictionary properties are set as strings, since that is how attribute
values are inherently typed. You should be seeing an error in the
console telling you that "padding is not a valid style" - correct?
That's because we're trying to call a string setter for padding, and
it doesn't exist.
So, kudos to you for pushing WTKX to see what you can and can't do.
Unfortunately, you can't do this. :-)
On Aug 4, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Scott Lanham wrote:
Tried right/left top/bottom and the buttons were up against the
window border.
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 09:22:34 am Greg Brown wrote:
You might not see the effect padding has since you are using center
alignments. Try right or left (or top/bottom).
On Aug 4, 2009, at 6:43 PM, Scott Lanham wrote:
I am playing with the Toggle Buttons part of the tutorial. After
changes the
WTKX file looks like:
<Window title="Toggle Buttons" maximized="true"
xmlns:wtkx="http://pivot.apache.org/wtkx";
xmlns:content="org.apache.pivot.wtk.content"
xmlns="org.apache.pivot.wtk">
<content>
<BoxPane>
<styles padding="100" horizontalAlignment="center"
verticalAlignment="center"/>
<PushButton toggleButton="true">
<buttonData>
<content:ButtonData text="Anchor"
icon="@clock.png"/>
</buttonData>
</PushButton>
<PushButton toggleButton="true">
<buttonData>
<content:ButtonData text="Cup"/>
</buttonData>
</PushButton>
<PushButton toggleButton="true">
<buttonData>
<content:ButtonData text="Star"/>
</buttonData>
</PushButton>
</BoxPane>
</content>
</Window>
Even with a padding of 100 it doesn't appear to do anything
different from not
having padding specified at all.
And yes I do like to try and break code, it makes it more fun to
learn that
way :-)
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 08:36:10 am Todd Volkert wrote:
Just a quick question, what does padding do? I change the values
and
nothing
appears to change.
To what component are you applying the padding style? The
component's skin
defines what styles it supports, by virtue of providing bean
properties, so
note that there are some component's for which padding is not a
supported
style. For containers that support it, it generally means that the
child
component(s) will be laid out inset from the container, and for
non-containers that support it (such as Label), it generally means
that
their content (such as a label's text) will be inset from the
boundaries of
the component.
-T
