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ScrollPane behavior and API: trying to understand [message #172140] Wed, 16 March 2005 17:43 Go to next message
Mark Powell is currently offline Mark PowellFriend
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In the process of writing some simple examples, I found a confusing behavior
that I want to ask the group about.

Here's what I did:
1) I made a ScrollPane that contains a child Figure, imageLayer.

2) To the imageLayer Figure I gave this Figure an XYLayout as its
LayoutManager and I added 50 ImageFigures as its children.

3) For each of the ImageFigures, I called setBounds(x,y,w,h) to set its
position and bounds, and then called imageLayer.add(imageFigure) to assign
each ImageFigure its parent.

4) I called scrollpane.setContents(imageLayer) to set it up.

When I did this, I got all this stuff on the screen, but the scroll bars of
the ScrollPane don't show up. I thought this was weird.
I tried calling revalidate() on the ScrollPane after adding all the
ImageFigures to the imageLayer parent figure, but that didn't make the
scrollbars appear either.

I poked around in it for a while longer and hit upon a subtle change in the
implementation after reading some example code.
The change I made was to step 3 (the change to which I will now call step
3').

3') For each of the ImageFigure, call imageLayer.add(imageFigure, bounds) to
assign each figure its parent and set its bounds and position.

Now the scroll bars are showing up. But why? My initial implementation was
based on just looking at the API and trying to use it the way that it seemed
to make sense to me, yet it didn't give me the results I wanted...I would be
very interested to hear your thoughts on the matter.

Thanks,
Mark
Re: ScrollPane behavior and API: trying to understand [message #172338 is a reply to message #172140] Thu, 17 March 2005 21:50 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: none.us.ibm.com

It sounds like you were using an XYLayout, but you weren't using the
constraints that class requires. So the layoutmanager would calcaulte 0,0
as its preferred size because of this.

"Mark Powell" <Mark.Powell@jpl.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:d19r7d$435$1@www.eclipse.org...
> In the process of writing some simple examples, I found a confusing
> behavior that I want to ask the group about.
>
> Here's what I did:
> 1) I made a ScrollPane that contains a child Figure, imageLayer.
>
> 2) To the imageLayer Figure I gave this Figure an XYLayout as its
> LayoutManager and I added 50 ImageFigures as its children.
>
> 3) For each of the ImageFigures, I called setBounds(x,y,w,h) to set its
> position and bounds, and then called imageLayer.add(imageFigure) to assign
> each ImageFigure its parent.
>
> 4) I called scrollpane.setContents(imageLayer) to set it up.
>
> When I did this, I got all this stuff on the screen, but the scroll bars
> of the ScrollPane don't show up. I thought this was weird.
> I tried calling revalidate() on the ScrollPane after adding all the
> ImageFigures to the imageLayer parent figure, but that didn't make the
> scrollbars appear either.
>
> I poked around in it for a while longer and hit upon a subtle change in
> the implementation after reading some example code.
> The change I made was to step 3 (the change to which I will now call step
> 3').
>
> 3') For each of the ImageFigure, call imageLayer.add(imageFigure, bounds)
> to assign each figure its parent and set its bounds and position.
>
> Now the scroll bars are showing up. But why? My initial implementation
> was based on just looking at the API and trying to use it the way that it
> seemed to make sense to me, yet it didn't give me the results I wanted...I
> would be very interested to hear your thoughts on the matter.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
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