[Dojo-interest] Basic help: SplitContainer

[Daniel]

1) Why should I be looking at tests?
2) How am I supposed to know where the tests are?
3) Why can't this be in the documentation, and in a user-understandable way?

Last time I asked a question about Dojo I was more or less told that 
obviously I should have been reading the "0.4 to 0.9 porting guide". My 
reply was "why should I be reading the 0.4 to 0.9 porting guide if I'm 
not porting anything?".

Is it going to be this way every time I try to do something in Dojo? Why 
  is it not possible that:

1) Things be documented,
2) Widgets have sensible behaviour like obeying the 'width' CSS 
attribute, and
3) Have widgets behave consistently (since *other* widgets do obey the 
width attribute).

This is so depressing...

Jon Sykes wrote:
> Did you look at the split container tests:
> 
> http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.0.0/dojo-release-1.0.0/dijit/tests/layout/test_SplitContainer.html
> 
> They have what I think you're looking for.
> 
> There, that wasn't so hard was it.  :-)
> 
> 
> On Dec 4, 2007, at 11:36 AM, Daniel wrote:
> 
>> Ok, I decided to give Dojo another try, and once again I'm struggling
>> with fairly elementary steps :-(
>>
>> I have a horizontal SplitContainer with two items. The first is  
>> intended
>> to be a sidebar and the second the main body of the application. The
>> problem is that the "sidebar" always ends up being half the size of  
>> the
>> container. No matter what I do, Dojo splits the horizontal container  
>> in
>> two equal chunks. I've tried specifying the width of both elements in
>> the container, but to no avail.
>>
>> <div dojoType="dijit.layout.SplitContainer" orientation="horizontal"
>>      id="top-container" sizerWidth="5" activeSizing="0">
>>   <div dojoType="dijit.layout.SplitContainer" orientation="vertical"
>>        id="sidebar-container" sizerWidth="5" activeSizing="0">
>>     Foo
>>   </div>
>>   <div dojoType="dijit.layout.ContentPane" id='body-container'>Bar</ 
>> div>
>> </div>
>>
>> And I have the following CSS:
>>
>> #top-container {
>>     width: 800px;
>>     height: 400px;
>> }
>> #sidebar-container {
>>     width: 200px;
>> }
>> #body-container {
>>     width: 600px;
>> }
>>
>>
>>
>> Could someone help?
>>
>>
>> Sigh... why is it so hard to do simple things with Dojo? I really  
>> really
>> *want* to use it, but it feels like I can't take two steps without
>> hitting a roadblock. I don't want to use Ext because I want to support
>> the more open project, but I also have a deadline to meet.
>>
>> Daniel.
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