Good stuff, glad you found a way. Check out the new capability when 1.12.0 is released (in the next week or two is my current prediction)
Cheers Dan On 18 March 2016 at 09:55, Shan Wijesinghe <shandwijesin...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Dan, > I did this little trick of setting the "labelPosition" : "TOP" and > adjusting the width which did the job for me. > Anyway it is nice to hear that you have added the functionality properly in > the upcoming release. It's glad to see Apache ISIS framework is providing > the support for customization taking small things into consideration. > > Best Regards, > Dilshan. > > On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 6:41 PM, Dan Haywood <d...@haywood-associates.co.uk > > > wrote: > > > Hi Dilshan, > > > > sorry not to get back to you on this before now. > > > > I wasn't able to just use CSS as things are in 1.11.1, but I've gone > ahead > > and done some minor improvements to the wicket viewer so that it does now > > emit extra CSS classes [1]; this will be in 1.12.0. > > > > I've written up the technique in the docs, see [2] > > > > Incidentally, this also now provide a CSS-only solution for the > > requirements also raised in [3] (suppress certain columns in tables) and > > [4] (suppress icon/link for some entity types). > > > > HTH > > Dan > > > > > > [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-1330 > > [2] > > > > > http://isis.apache.org/guides/ugvw.html#_ugvw_customisation_tweaking-css-classes_columns-in-tables > > [3] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-791 ... raised by Erik > > [4] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ISIS-1021 ... raised by > > Stephen > > > > > > > > > > On 9 March 2016 at 09:02, Shan Wijesinghe <shandwijesin...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > Stephen thank you for the comments. > > > > > > Dan , I tried that already using "width: NN px". I used the same > cssClass > > > for all the fields and changed the width. It worked but when using > lower > > > width ( say, 50px ) field name and its text field overlapped and for > > > higher width ( say 500px ) horizontal scrollbar appeared in the > > table.This > > > behavior is undesired. Please do give a guidance on the matter. Thank > you > > > for the information. > > > > > > regards, > > > Dilshan. > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 1:53 PM, Dan Haywood < > > d...@haywood-associates.co.uk> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Actually, the PropertyLayout#typicalLength() is intended as a UI hint > > as > > > to > > > > the size of the text box... how many characters would typically be in > > > that > > > > field, and thence how wide to render the text field. That's where > the > > > name > > > > comes from, and why it's in the XxxLayout annotation. > > > > > > > > The Property#maxLength() is the absolute maximum length, so is part > of > > > the > > > > domain. Alternatively, maxLength is also derived from the JDO > > > > @Column#length() annotation. > > > > > > > > Now the caveats. > > > > > > > > * First, as already noted these only apply to strings > > > > > > > > * Second, the typicalLength was only really something we considered > for > > > the > > > > object forms, not for column widths of tables. And even saying that, > > > when > > > > we restyled the Wicket viewer to use bootstrap3, we decided that it > was > > > > cleaner to have all text boxes rendered the same size. (How many > > > > characters can be entered still depends on the maxLength of course). > > > > > > > > So, what that means is we don't really have a way to control the > column > > > > width through the metamodel. > > > > > > > > What you may be able to do though is to use CSS, modifying the > > > > WEB-INF/application.css file to adjust the "width: NN%". I don't > have > > > time > > > > at the moment, but I'll try to follow up with some further guidance > on > > > this > > > > later today. > > > > > > > > thx > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On 9 March 2016 at 07:35, Stephen Cameron < > steve.cameron...@gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I don't think that is the way to think of about it. A string has > > length > > > > but > > > > > the other datatypes don't. That is the Naked Object heritage. > > > > > > > > > > Having said that, there is now quite a bit of flexibility in > tweeking > > > the > > > > > views that a viewer creates, as described here: > > > > > > > > > > https://isis.apache.org/guides/ugfun.html#_ugfun_object-layout > > > > > > > > > > . > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Shan Wijesinghe < > > > > shandwijesin...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Stephen it says here maxLength() applicable only to String. Say I > > > have > > > > > > int,double or even another object inside my table. Then how can I > > > give > > > > a > > > > > > length to such a column. Thanks. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Stephen Cameron < > > > > > > steve.cameron...@gmail.com > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://isis.apache.org/guides/rgant.html#_rgant-Property_maxLength > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, Mar 9, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Shan Wijesinghe < > > > > > > shandwijesin...@gmail.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > what is the way to chance the layout of tables like > > > spacing > > > > > of > > > > > > > > columns. ( is there a way to specify length of column similar > > to > > > > > > > > typicalLength() attribute which only work for Strings ) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > thanks and regards, > > > > > > > > Dilshan. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
