how to check/set "rootPanel" dimensions in Design

[peterblazejewicz]

Hi all,

I need to have constrained "rootPanel" dimensions and I want that to be done via design view without using CSS. I can resize "rootPanel" but I cannot see any widget in project which shows what are dimensions of such scaled view.
It seems that properties (size: width/height) for rootPanel are not applicable to design mode viewport size,

thanks,
regards,
Peter

[Konstantin.Scheglov]

You can set size of UIObject using setSize() method, however for RootPanel setSize() is ignored, because RootPanel is practically browser window (in most cases).

What do you mean by "constrain dimensions"?

[peterblazejewicz]

hi Konstantin,
thanks for answer,
Maybe I wasn't clear enough in my question:
I want to know how I can check what are "root panel" dimensions in Design view when changed via mouse using resize handles. I don't want to use any UIObject/WIdget methods for that, only mouse (or keyboard) operations that are available wihint Design view.
Whenever I scale design canvas by mouse it is resized but no properties are changed (maybe that's good) but at least something like "designer" canvas view width/height should be somehow visible,

What I'm doing is changing canvas size within "Design" view to check if it fits various devices screen areas (e.g. iPhone vertical/landscape view dimensions),

regards,
Peter

[Konstantin.Scheglov]

Ok, now I understand.

Now, in new build, Designer will show new size and resize delta when you will resize top level component (for example RootPanel) using mouse.

[Eric Clayberg]

Here's what it looks like...

[peterblazejewicz]

Hello Eric,
exactly!
I hope you're seeing how imporant and usefull that feature could be

regards,
Peter

[Eric Clayberg]

I hope you're seeing how imporant and usefull that feature could be

Yes. That is why we added it.

We always welcome good ideas and try to implement them quickly.

[peterblazejewicz]

just for others:
tested as working with build [20070916122140]
regards,
Peter

[peterblazejewicz]

hi,
for others: I've found that Designer "General" settings panel contains default dimensions for generated viewport size (a.k.a form in swt/swing).
So i could also change those settings when starting new project and it will be applied to every new view created in designer,
http://download.instantiations.com/Desi ... neral.html

regards,
Peter

[Eric Clayberg]

Here's a screen shot...