Re: [xwt-users] Question about buttons

--- Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Eric Merritt wrote:
> > <box orient="horizontal" vshrink="true">
> >      <button sizetoimage="true"
> >              id="reload" 
> >             
> > image="org.cyberlync.polar.icons.reload"/>
> > </box>
> 
> The confusion here is with sizetoimage.
> 
> For sake of demonstration, let's assume the box
> structure of a button is 
> this:
> 
> <template border="buttonborder">
>      redirect["image"] = $content;
>      <box id="content" />
> </template>
> 
> The 'image' is being redirected to the content.  The
> 'sizetoimage' put 
> is landing on (in the above structure) the top level
> template node.  The 
> top level template has no image, so it tries to size
> itself to [0,0]. 
> However, since it's contents are larger than that,
> it is sizing to the 
> size of the content and hence the border overlaps
> the image.
> 
> The content of a button actually runs sizetoimage
> anyway (the target is 
> actually an <icon />).  So it's redundant.  you want
> this instead:
> 
> <button shrink="true" image="..." />
> 
> - Charlie
> 

 Using your example and changing sizetoimage to shrink
produces a button about 5x3 pixels where you cant see
the image at all (or at least only a quarter of it). I
must be missing something somewhere.

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