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XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #569101] Sat, 27 February 2010 14:27 Go to next message
Konstantin Scheglov is currently offline Konstantin ScheglovFriend
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I have empty custom Composite that sets RowLayout in its constructor.
I want to use this Composite in XWT, but use instead absolute layout.
How can I do this? We don't have class with name "AbsoluteLayout". I've tried to use attribute layout="null", but this also does not work.


org.eclipse.e4.xwt.XWTException: Converter is missing of type: org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Layout from String


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Re: XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #569440 is a reply to message #569101] Fri, 05 March 2010 12:36 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Erdal Karaca is currently offline Erdal KaracaFriend
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If you do not want a layout to be set at all, then you would do nothing...

There are plenty of xwt snippets in the tests plugins (org.eclipse.e4.xwt.tests).
Re: XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #569469 is a reply to message #569101] Fri, 05 March 2010 13:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Konstantin Scheglov is currently offline Konstantin ScheglovFriend
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My custom component MyComposite already has RowLayout set.
I would like to change it at some usage points to absolute layout.
I.e. I mean that not all components have absolute layout as implicit, sometimes I need to set it explicitly.
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Re: XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #569485 is a reply to message #569469] Fri, 05 March 2010 19:42 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Erdal Karaca is currently offline Erdal KaracaFriend
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Then, you would go like this:

<MyComposite.layout>
<AbsoluteLayout />
</MyComposite.layout>


Though, I am not sure what this "Absolute Layout" is all about as there is no such thing in SWT. AFAIK, in swt, you always need a layout to be set to get the controls rendered...

You would need to make the AbsoluteLayout class visible to XWT:

<j:MyComposite xmlns:j="clr-namespace:com.example.mywidgets" ...

where com.example.mywidgets is the package that contains MyComposite and AbsoluteLayout.

Regarding the converter exception: You need a converter that can translate the "null" string to a null object.
I am not sure if xwt has such a converter. Then, you could do this, I guess:

<MyComposite layout="null" />

See XWT.registerConvertor().
Re: XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #569516 is a reply to message #569101] Fri, 05 March 2010 20:23 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Konstantin Scheglov is currently offline Konstantin ScheglovFriend
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"Absolute layout" is default layout of Composite, i.e. "null" layout.
It is not my custom layout.

So, I wonder why I can set "normal" layout like RowLayout, but can not set such basic layout as absolute.

Would be good if there was already support for setting absolute layout in XWT, for completeness of layouts support.

Thank you for hint about converter.

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Re: XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #570115 is a reply to message #569469] Fri, 12 March 2010 10:21 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Yves YANG is currently offline Yves YANGFriend
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I think it is a dynamic aspect, which can be handled by Java using SWT/Jface
APIs.

yves
"Konstantin Scheglov" <Konstantin.Scheglov@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> My custom component MyComposite already has RowLayout set.
> I would like to change it at some usage points to absolute layout.
> I.e. I mean that not all components have absolute layout as implicit,
> sometimes I need to set it explicitly.
> --
> Konstantin Scheglov,
> Instantiations, Inc.
Re: XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #570184 is a reply to message #570115] Fri, 12 March 2010 10:56 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Konstantin Scheglov is currently offline Konstantin ScheglovFriend
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Yves YANG wrote on Fri, 12 March 2010 08:48
> I think it is a dynamic aspect, which can be handled by Java using SWT/Jface
> APIs.


Why is this dynamic aspect?
Why is it different than setting any other layout, such as RowLayout or GridLayout?

For example NetBeans also uses XML for storing layouts, but it allows you set "Null layout".

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Google, Inc.
Re: XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #570286 is a reply to message #570184] Fri, 12 March 2010 20:50 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Yves YANG is currently offline Yves YANGFriend
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"Konstantin Scheglov" <Konstantin.Scheglov@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Yves YANG wrote on Fri, 12 March 2010 08:48
>> I think it is a dynamic aspect, which can be handled by Java using
>> SWT/Jface APIs.
>
>
> Why is this dynamic aspect?

It is because the change occurs after the UI resource is loaded and in
general, it is relative to an event.

> Why is it different than setting any other layout, such as RowLayout or
> GridLayout?
>
> For example NetBeans also uses XML for storing layouts, but it allows you
> set "Null layout".

You can set any Layout, which is used when the resource gets loaded.

Regards
Yves YANG
>
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> Konstantin Scheglov,
> Instantiations, Inc.
Re: XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #570348 is a reply to message #570286] Fri, 12 March 2010 21:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Konstantin Scheglov is currently offline Konstantin ScheglovFriend
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You don't understand me.

I don't want to change layout as result of some event, such as when user clicks on Button. I just want to set "null" layout statically, in XWT, for some Composite subclass.

You probably think that all Composites have "null" layout by default, I also was some time under such impression, but it is not. So, if we want to use "null" layout on such Composite, we have to set it. But it seems that right now XWT does not provide such feature. This is not good, because breaks symmetry in using layouts.

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Instantiations, Inc.


Konstantin Scheglov,
Google, Inc.
Re: XWT. How to set absolute (null) layout? [message #570356 is a reply to message #569101] Fri, 12 March 2010 21:38 Go to previous message
Frank Gualtieri is currently offline Frank GualtieriFriend
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I know I am late in posting this since your last post was in July, but I've just started to look at XWT. I've been trying to get the FormLayout to work as it does in SWT but there seems to be some problems with it. (that is for another post).

As for using a null layout manager, you may want to use the FormLayout. It will allow you to set the x,y coordinates of your widgets in the same way (at I think it would be in the same way as a null layout manager).

Here is an example of creating a composite that uses a FormLayout to place a single button 10 pixels down and 10 pixels to the right in the composite:

<Composite xmlns="http://www.eclipse.org/xwt/presentation"
xmlns:x="http://www.eclipse.org/xwt"
xmlns:c="clr-namespace:sample.hello"
xmlns:j="clr-namespace:java.lang"
x:Class="sample.hello.HelloWorld"
bounds="0,0,449,171">
<Composite.layout>
<FormLayout /> <!--The composite uses a FormLayout -->
</Composite.layout>
<Button text="Some Button">
<Button.layoutData>
<!--The button is placed 0% plus 10 pixels from the composite's top
and 0% plus 10 pixels from the composite's left side
NOTE: the percent is the of either the composites height (for top)
or the composites width (for left).
SO the end result is that the top, left corner of the button
is placed 10 pixels down and 10 pixels to the right -->
<FormData top="0,10" left="0,10"/>
</Button.layoutData>
</Button>
</Composite>
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