Re: Split Pane question

On Monday 18 August 2003 10:53, Dee Gould wrote:
> I'm looking at utilizing the split pane quite extensively

This code is going to see a major overhaul in the next week. MDA and I were 
talking a bit about this last night, and its beahvior is currently far too 
eratic for production use. Christian's problems with it highlight some issues 
I've been aware of for a little while, and I've finally decided that using 
relative positioning and trying to let the browser "do the right thing" isn't 
going to work. This widget _needs_ to be solid and functional, as it should 
be the kind of thing you can rely on to build interfaces (and indeed, other 
widgets).

I don't anticipate that the ctor syntax will change (our object hierarchy 
finally pays off!), but expect CVS to go unstable for this widget for a 
little while. I know it's a PITA, but I'll try to keep things at least 
working as well as they are now while I develop, and I'll let you know when 
it's safe to re-sync to CVS. Sorry for the upheaval.

> but am having problems understanding how to create one.  I would prefer to
> not have to load the content as in your example page ( which uses
> __env__.addToPageQueue ), but rather have something like the following
> in my html page:
>
> <div nwAppId="nwSplitPane" nwType="split_pane" nwControlName="nwSplitPane">
>     <div id="leftPane" nwType="pane" >
>           ..... put html content here for the left pane ....
>     </div>
>     <div> id="rightPane" nwType="pane">
>           .... put html content here for the right pane ....
>     </div>
> </div>
>
>  From looking at the .js file for the split_pane_widget, it looks like
> it can be done, but I'm just a little confused on how to do it.  Any
> help would be greatly appreciated!

Your example should work with minor modification, as the inline ctor already 
handles child content if the url="..." parameter is not set on the pane 
element and parseContent="true" is set. Using that, your example would 
become:

<div nwAppId="nwSplitPane" nwType="split_pane" nwControlName="nwSplitPane">
    <div id="leftPane" nwType="pane" parseContent="true">
          ..... put html content here for the left pane ....
    </div>
    <div> id="rightPane" nwType="pane" parseContent="true">
          .... put html content here for the right pane ....
    </div>
</div>

Let me know if you have any problems with it (aside from the funky dragging 
and spacing behavior Christian has reported).

-- 
Alex Russell
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