Window status bar access?

[wcwilson]

In the contacts sample app the window has a bar across the bottom which in other windows apps can be used for status text. In contacts.lzx I don't see this referenced so I assume that this is a standard component (in Redmond) that is shown because the window is resizable. Can I reference that object somehow so I can set some text there?

Thanks,

--Wayne

[antun]

Hey Wayne

This should get you started. You'll probably need to nest the text tag within views to get the right spacing, or maybe there's another way...


<canvas debug="true">
<window resizeable="true" id="myWin">
<text placement="fixedpanel">Hello World!</text>
</window>
</canvas>


Now for the interesting bit. Where did I dig up fixedpanel? Run the above app, then using the debugger, type:-

myWin

Since it finds a view called myWin (global, because it's referenced with an id), it will tell you it found a LzView.

Then try typing in:
myWin.subviews

Next try:
myWin.bottom.subviews

Neat, eh?

-Antun

[hqm]

make that attribute "resizable", not "resizeable" ...

[wcwilson]

Thanks again, that worked well. Here is my statusbar (adjusted down to center text that I set elsewhere):

<text placement="fixedpanel" name="statusbar" y="6" width="98"/>

You notice I set the width. I did so because anything larger than that will move the divider over to the right (good) but the text will leave a big white space behind it (bad). I guess with the name "fixed panel" it is not supposed to expand... Now I would actually like to get ahold of the panel to its right.

Is there any doc that has all these subviews listed so that I can use them in placement without going into debug? That is actually a question in general. While the docs show all the attributes that can be set for a particular, I don't know what all the legal values are.

--Wayne

[antun]

You know that you can say:

<view width="immediateparent.width" />

As for the docs, we don't really plan to have docs that list out each views subviews. However you can look at the source code for components (it's in $webappfolder/WEB-INF/lps/components/redmond/), but the Redmond components are not yet updated to use current LZX code (they were built a while back). If you look at the code for the Debugger, you'll get a better idea of how a Laszlo component is actually just some LZX code.

-Antun

[antun]

I get compilation warnings with "resizable" on B2.

-Antun

Originally posted by hqm
make that attribute "resizable", not "resizeable" ...

[hqm]

Oh, it must have changed for the next release. Is that in the release notes?

[qman]

Originally posted by wcwilson
Here is my statusbar (adjusted down to center text that I set elsewhere):

<text placement="fixedpanel" name="statusbar" y="6" width="98"/>
--Wayne

did you put it inside the <window> tag or in the window class (under the bottom view)? i tried to put it in the <window> tag (with: placement="fixedpanel", placement="bottom.fixedpanel",...), but it dosnt work, the text goes to the title bar.

thanks