Re: [nebula-dev] [compositeTable]: taint whole cell-area with color (And

[André Dietisheim <dietisheim@xxxxxxxxx>]

nope, what I tried to do is have a 'per-column' color. A feature needed
here to indicate cells are required values and may not left blank.


On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 15:13 -0600, David J. Orme wrote:
> Hmmmm; Override setBackground() on the abstract row object to
> recursively go through its children and setBackground() to the same
> color?
> 
> Would that do what you want?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Dave
> 
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> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 09:51:48 +0100
> From: Andr? Dietisheim <dietisheim@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [nebula-dev] [compositeTable]: taint whole cell-area with
>         color
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> Hi Dave
> 
> I'm currently stuck in a problem where I try to have background-color
> in
> a cell. The current cell-layout does not stretch the control to use
> the
> complete area reserved in the row composite. If you have buttons and
> texts in a row, the row gehts the max height used by the buttons.
> texts
> are currently positioned to the bottom of the row, leaving a space
> above
> them. If I set background-color on those text it looks terribly ugly.
> Stretching those text-controls does not help as the text top-aligned
> inside the text-control and it looks as ugly as before.
> I have 2 solutions I tried without success:
> 
> 1.) gc.fillRectangle() of row-composite (getParent() and use its y +
> height). I unfortunately never got the expected result. I did not take
> the time to track the error.
> 
> 2.) wrap texts in another composite that has a layout that streches
> the
> text horizontally and center it vertically. I tracked the problems I
> have here and I think they could be solved:
> - arrive-event not triggered: TableRow appends a focusListener to the
> controls parent (wrapping composite here instead of text). wrapping
> composite does not trigger focus events -> override addFocusListener
> on
> wrapping composite to attach focus-listener to text-control
> - current column not evaluated correctly in TableRow -> check nested
> controls
> - arrow-up & arrow-down navigation not handled natively by composite
> ->
> extend keyTraversed handling in InternalComposite (currently it only
> handles nextRow- and previousRow- Navigation)
> 
> in general I think solution 2) is lot of changes but could allow
> nesting
> any kind of container in table cells. On the other hand the
> straight-forward approach 1) should be sufficient for now. I do have
> to
> admit though that I do not understand yet why my gc-drawings get
> tackled.
> 
> I'd appreciate a lot you opinion on this stuff!
> 
> Greetings
> Andr��
> 
> 
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