Posted by
SkipDever on
Sep 20, 2007; 9:05am
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/POS-Setup-tp148376p148397.html
I am having problems with XUI for complex nested layouts. If the layout is
simple (mostly flat) everything works fine. But, with multiply nested
border layout containers, it screws up (for me).
I prototyped the thing in Netbeans in an hour, then copied the dimensions
into an XUI project, so I am sure they are all right.
Here is a snippet of the XUI code:
<XPage next="checkout" layout="Border">
<Layout hgap="0" vgap="0"/>
<Components>
<Panel name="centerPanel" constraint="Center" border="0" layout="Border">
<Panel name="centerTopPanel" h="200" constraint="North" opaque="true"
border="1" layout="Grid">
<Layout hgap="0" vgap="0" rows="1" columns="2" />
<Panel name="centerTopLeftPanel" style="prompt" w="352" h="200"
opaque="true" border="1">
...
</Panel>
<Panel name="centerTopRightPanel" style="prompt" w="352" h="200"
opaque="true" border="1" layout="Border">
...
</Panel>
</Panel>
<Panel name="centerCenterPanel" h="300" constraint="Center" opaque="false"
border="1">
...
</Panel>
...
</Panel>
<Panel name="southPanel" w="1024" h="40" constraint="South"
opaque="false" border="0">
...
</Panel>
<Panel name="westPanel" w="320" h="636" constraint="West" border="1"
layout="Grid">
...
</Panel>
</Panel>
(What I am doing with all this is essentially duplicating the layout of the
Orders-Order Entry screen.)
This displays "sorta" ok (so long as I don't change anything) in the GUI
editor, but when I run it, the "centerPanel" at the top has nothing in it.
I tried this with only dimensions in the "westPanel" and no dimensions
anywhere else, as well as explicit and carefully calculated dimensions for
all. Nothing has worked.
I now have four days screwing with this (just trying to layout the
containers) and I am ready to give it up and hand code it in Java (which
will take a couple hours at most), but I'd really like to do it in XUI for
compatibility reasons.
I have tried both using the GUI editor (Netbeans and Eclipse flavors) and
hand coding the XML. No joy with either method.
I have tried 2.06. 2.07 and the 3.0 versions.
Anyone have a hint or two? I would especially like to find some
documentation of the XML property definitions.
Skip