root panel - cannot set long size

[hbozic]

I need a long form. But I cannot set the size of a root panel.

RootPanel rootPanel = RootPanel.get();
rootPanel.setSize("600px", "1600px");

does not work

Dragging the Root Panel longer in the designer does not work either.

[Eric Clayberg]

Did you try setting the root panel's size property in the property pane?

[hbozic]

changing the width or height in the properties does not change the size of the root panel -- dragging the root panel does not change the properties values height or width.

[Eric Clayberg]

changing the width or height in the properties does not change the size of the root panel -- dragging the root panel does not change the properties values height or width.

Are you saying that the call to setSize() has no effect at runtime?

[hbozic]

Well, I never got that far.
The problem I am having is with the designer

to reproduce the problem

1. create a root panel with a size of 600px by 1600px
( the root panel cannot be made longer than 1009px )


2. add a tab panel in the root panel and make the size (230px,1200px)
( which is longer than the root panel)

3. add an absolute panel in the tab panel

4. try to add any widget ( e.g. button ) on the absolute panel at the 1100px mark
Although you are within the bounds of the absolute panel , you cannot drop the widget onto the surface.

[Eric Clayberg]

Unfortunately, since we are actually manipulating live GWT widgets, we can't get an image of one that is larger than the physical size of your display.

The larger your physical (or virtual) display, the larger panel we can create (I can make one that is slightly less than 1200px tall).

We are exploring various work arounds, but have not found anything that helps yet.