Re: [Xswt-developer] Xswt-developer Digest, Vol 2, Issue 5

[David J. O. <dj...@co...>]

Hallvard Tr=E6tteberg wrote:
> David,=20
>  =20
>> -----Original Message-----
>> Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 13:29:20 -0500
>> From: "David J. Orme" <dj...@co...>
>> Subject: [Xswt-developer] New task list
>>
>> Hallvard,
>>
>> b) I've extended the style sheet test, and added comments=20
>> about additional style sheet things it would be nice to support.
>>    =20
>
> Concerning this suggestion (cut from the style test):
>
> 	<!-- Should be able to just define grabHorizontal on the layoutData
> 		and make it apply to any GridData on any type of object -->
> 	<composite x:id=3D"grabHorizontal">
> 		<layoutData x:class=3D"gridData"
> grabExcessHorizontalSpace=3D"true" horizontalAlignment=3D"FILL"/>
> 	</composite>
>
> Is this meant to declare that all children added to a composite with th=
is
> style should automatically "inherit" this particular layout data? I'm n=
ot
> sure if it makes sense to have a mechanism where a parent style pushes
> default values into the children. In this case it makes less sense, sin=
ce
> layout data may apply to the parent (as a child) and the child.
>
> Perhaps you can clarify the suggestion?
>  =20
Sure.  :-)

Right now I think there's no way to define a style for a layoutData?

What I think I wanted to write in the style sheet was the following:

<composite>
   <layoutData x:id=3D"grabHorizontal" x:class=3D"gridData" bla bla bla/>
</composite>

Then I could have the following in a regular XSWT file:

<composite>
  <layoutData x:style=3D"styles.grabHorizontal"/>
</composite>

which would be much more concise than the usual bag of attributes that=20
normally come with grabbing horizontally.  :-)  I don't know if this is=20
hard in the current implementation, but notice that the meta x:class=20
attribute is implicitly included in the style too.

Does this make sense?  Do you agree that this is a good idea?


Regards,

Dave Orme