[Dojo-interest] Basic help: SplitContainer

[Daniel]

Where can I locate documentation on the attributes sizeMin and sizeShare 
and similar ones? They are not working the way I expect. I tried the 
following pages:

http://dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-2-dijit/layout/content-pane
http://dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-2-dijit/layout/split-container

Neither mentions these attributes. The side bar is too big and reducing 
the value of sizeMin and sizeShare doesn't seem to do anything. I don't 
know how these values are derived. My first thought was that they were 
percentages, but they clearly aren't as they don't add up to 100.

Daniel wrote:
> 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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