I was wondering if it was possible to insert a layout within a layout in Filemaker.
For example, to insert a list view layout (with scroll bar) on the right-hand-side of another layout?
No, you cannot nest layouts. The closest you can come is to use a portal, and if you want to get really creative, a web viewer.
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Given that I have this dialog UI prototype with 2 buttons, what would be the best approach to program it?
My idea was to use Grid coming from "sap.ui.layout", but it is not perfect for the alignments.
So now I am thinking of using Flexbox for the first row,
then use table for the checkbox content and then again flexboxes for the rest of the rows.
Can there be any other better layouts that I am now aware of that I can use natively in openUI5.
Layouts are a personal choice, but so far I found FlexBox to be the most convenient and easy to handle across device sizes.
How can I create a custom view with a custom style? I have many TextView's in my layout and its kind of difficult to manage all of them. I want to group them in a custom view with custom look (a box with rounded corners) and in my code just give the values to the custom view code to handle it itself.
What I am looking after is something like:
Can someone plesae tell me the steps to create such custom view with rounded box and few TextView's inside it?
Two approaches:
You can create a layout for your view. You need to take different layout widgets like textviews etc. and assign them values.
You can use canvas to draw such view.
The proper way is to inherit from View. Either programatically or in designer You assign any layout to this view. To the layout You assign Your elements ( TextViews, whatever ).
Create methods in the derived View class which fill the inner elements, something like getters/setters, like properties in c#. Those are public.
Then place Your custom compound control onto Your main view.
I for myself created a column orientated tablecontrol with custom scrollbar this way ( but pure via code ) and it works very well. Ah, and additionally You can draw shapes on Your derived view, which allow You relatively simple to apply round corners, and even color transitions.
I'm assuming you're using eclipse to create your android project.
Go to your src file and create a new layout (relative layout works best here). There is a visual representation of the layout you're creating so you should be able to play around with it. Drag and drop the textviews where you want them and give them unique names. Then in your java code, call the textviews like:
TextView text = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textview_name_here);
text.setText("Your Text Here");
There are plenty of examples online.
Folks,
coming from the Java/Swing world, I am sometimes puzzled by the UI programming on the iPhone. I've spent the last hours with Googling for information but it seems that I asked the wrong questions by thinking too much in Java. Could you please point me to resources to get more familiar with the GUI concepts to be able to achive the following functionality:
Basically, I want to create a vertically scrollable view that represents structured text (for example, a recipe). Each step consists of a title and a textual description. As I want to fold and unfold such steps, the title would be somehow interactive and by clicking it the description would be displayed or hidden.
In Java, I would create a component that renders one such section. The layout manager would compute the components preferred height (with or without description being displayed).
Then, in Java, I would create a panel with a vertical layout manager and sequentially add my components. This panel would be placed in a scroll pane; the scroll pane would ask the panel to layout itself and then show a viewport on it, if for example the height is bigger than the scroll pane's height.
What Java provides me is:
layouting of elements (computing their preferred height and width), thus no need to deal with coordinates and dimensions
dynamic creation of UIs by creating and adding components during runtime
What I understood on the iPhone:
I can dynamically add views as subview to a view, e.g. a scrollview by calling addSubview
I can even remove that stuff using removeFromSubview (as explained here Clear content of UIScrollView)
What I don't understand on the iPhone:
does one view always correspond to a visible screen (I did use tab and navbar navigation so far and there whenever I set a new view, it fills the current visible screen minus the space needed for the two bars)?
or is it possible to define a view that contains a label on top ("north") and a text in center; if so, could such a view automatically determine its height?
can I realize my example in a similar way like in Java or would I need to calculate all dimensions and coordinates of the individual components on my own? (This example seems to touch on that topic: iPhone scrollView add elements dynamically with id)
Alternatively, could I use a WebView and render my stuff as local HTML using JavaScript to show or hide nodes?
Thanks for any hint or link!
There are no layout managers in Cocoa, views are being reposition according to their struts and springs settings. For information on that read the documentation: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/IB_UserGuide/Layout/Layout.html
To create a "view that contains a label on top and a text in center" you create a view with subviews - one being a label at the top, second the textview in center. If you configure struts/springs for all of subviews properly, they will autoresize when the container view is resized.
You should also get accustomed to Interface Builder, creating views in code is real pain in the ass.
I have a project in which I need a way to display essentially a list of tabs, each with their own content pages, down the left side of the page. I'm using TabLayoutPanels elsewhere to good effect, but after looking at how they are constructed it seems like it would be quite a bit of work to undo Google's carefully constructed layout and get it to work in any other orientation than top-aligned.
This doesn't seem like it would be an uncommon layout, so does anyone know of a successful implementation of this kind of container?
Best you can do is use DeckPanel, and make your custom tab controls to switch visible widget in that DeckPanel.
I Am trying to create a Tab Panel where I can add and delete tabs on demand.
Where I am getting stuck is that if a potential user adds too many tabs the new tabs go off the screen.
Each Tab is to contain a text area widget where a user may enter text.
Is there any way of horizontally scrolling the just the TabBar and not the whole browser window?
I could use a scroll panel but I was hoping to scrol just the Tabs, not the panel contents.
I cannot see any available method in the com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.TabPanel API that will perform this function and no real way to split the panel.
Help!
It's not what you've asked for, but you might consider using a StackPanel instead of a TabPanel, since if the user can enter a long list of items it's generally better to have vertical scrolling instead of horizontal scrolling.
The gwt TabPanel isn't the greatest, and there's not a real easy way to do what you want. You could take a look at the tab widget in Ext-GWT, which scrolls the tabs, but I don't think extjs is generally a good idea.
There's a bunch of new layout-based widgets arriving with GWT 2.0. Look at TabLayoutPanel. It places tabs in a very wide container inside a div with overflow=hidden. You might be able to add some controls to scroll that container and get the effect you want.
Good luck, and report back if you get something working. GWT really needs more widget contributors.