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Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115768]

Tue, 24 September 2013 15:01

Mar Ifla

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Registered: September 2013

Junior Member

I'm creating a RCP e4 application product and want to set the initial width of two Parts in a horizontal PartSashContainer.

I read about just setting the containerData attribute of the Parts, e.g. "20" and "80" for a 20% to 80% relation. I'm just doing this but it doesn't have any effect on the actual rendering. The Parts have equal widths.

That's the appropriate code in the XMI:

<children xsi:type="basic:PartSashContainer" xmi:id="_YtXj4CUhEeO-E52C3JQ7OQ" elementId="my.partsashcontainer" containerData="" selectedElement="_-W9m8CUXEeO-E52C3JQ7OQ" horizontal="true">
      
	<children xsi:type="basic:Part" xmi:id="_-W9m8CUXEeO-E52C3JQ7OQ" elementId="my.part1" containerData="20" contributionURI="bundleclass://my.app/my.part1" label="Part1"/>
      
	<children xsi:type="basic:Part" xmi:id="_joYXsCE2EeO-E52C3JQ7OQ" elementId="my.part2" containerData="80" contributionURI="bundleclass://my.app/my.part2" label="Part2"/>
    
</children>

(The product is an org.eclipse.fx.ui.workbench.application, if that's of any interest.)

[Updated on: Tue, 24 September 2013 15:02]

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Re: Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115769 is a reply to message #1115768]

Tue, 24 September 2013 15:05

Eclipse User

Try the clearpersistedstate flag http://www.vogella.com/articles/EclipseRCP/article.html#runconfigurationpara

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Re: Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115772 is a reply to message #1115768]

Tue, 24 September 2013 15:06

romain ognier

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Or put the part in partStak and set the containerData of the PartStack and it should work.

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Re: Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115792 is a reply to message #1115772]

Tue, 24 September 2013 15:29

Mar Ifla

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Thanks for your quick answers, but none of the approaches has an effect. Sad

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Re: Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115796 is a reply to message #1115792]

Tue, 24 September 2013 15:32

romain ognier

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<children xsi:type="basic:PartSashContainer" xmi:id="_YtXj4CUhEeO-E52C3JQ7OQ" elementId="my.partsashcontainer" containerData="" selectedElement="_-W9m8CUXEeO-E52C3JQ7OQ" horizontal="true">   
<children xsi:type="basic:PartStack" xmi:id="_uYGxoxYxEeOeFd4ezZn-XA" elementId="my.parstackt1" containerData="20">  
	<children xsi:type="basic:Part" xmi:id="_-W9m8CUXEeO-E52C3JQ7OQ" elementId="my.part1" containerData="" contributionURI="bundleclass://my.app/my.part1" label="Part1"/>    
</children>  
<children xsi:type="basic:PartStack" xmi:id="_uYGxoxYxEeOeFd4ezZn-XA" elementId="my.parstackt2" containerData="80">  
	<children xsi:type="basic:Part" xmi:id="_joYXsCE2EeO-E52C3JQ7OQ" elementId="my.part2" containerData="" contributionURI="bundleclass://my.app/my.part2" label="Part2"/>    
</children> 
</children>

It works for me.

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Re: Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115813 is a reply to message #1115796]

Tue, 24 September 2013 16:05

Mar Ifla

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That's what I feared. Sad

I just had a look at the sample project from E(fx)clipse Tutorial 4 which has a similar application model.

PartSashContainer
-Part(containerData="0.3")
-Part Stack(containerData="0.7")

If I run the project, the Part and the Part Stack have nearly equal size, the ratio is roughly 45% to 55%.

Why doesn't this work in my environment?

I'm using Eclipse Kepler with e(fx)clipse IDE 0.9.0.201309190708 and e4 Tools 0.14.0.v20130814-1230 with jdk1.7.0_25 on Windows 7 64bit.

[Updated on: Tue, 24 September 2013 16:06]

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Re: Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115816 is a reply to message #1115813]

Tue, 24 September 2013 16:07

Eclipse User

Are you using SWT or efxc renderers? If it's the second I'll move this to the efxc forum.

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Re: Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115828 is a reply to message #1115816]

Tue, 24 September 2013 16:31

Mar Ifla

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efxc

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Re: Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115907 is a reply to message #1115828]

Tue, 24 September 2013 19:20

Eric Moffatt

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Also, if the sum of the widths is too small you'll see choppy drag behavior because changing the value from '80' to '75' for example will cover many more than 5 pixels.

Generally you should keep the totals fairly high (i.e. we'd use 8,000 / 2,000 as the sum so that we have plenty of room rather than 80 / 20.

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Re: Relative width of Parts in PartSashContainer - containerData has no effect [message #1115977 is a reply to message #1115828]

Tue, 24 September 2013 20:58

Thomas Schindl

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi,

OK - this is a freaking FX-SplitPane problem. The reason is that the
first layouting happens BEFORE the stage is show and has a size.

Now when we try to apply the sash weights can not be smaller than the
minimal content and because of that the split is roughly 50:50.

I've filed https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=417965 and
fixed it with
http://git.eclipse.org/c/efxclipse/org.eclipse.efxclipse.git/commit/?id=b7bdb71360564bc2aba13ba5eaf54c5000cb6d6f
so the next nightly build should hold it. You don't need to update the
tooling BUT you need to reset your target-platform to the nightly build.

Tom

On 24.09.13 18:31, Mar Ifla wrote:
> efxc

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