layout

Settings screen layout style

I am creating a new settings screen for my app and want to keep the look and feel similar to that of the standard applications. I have seen many 3rd party apps also follow this style (Twidroid for example) and would like to know how best to go about creating this look? Is there a "template" or Activity I can use or is it a case of cons...

android: simple LinearLayout and fill_parent question

I'm sure I am missing something simple... Background: I am new to android and UI design, and I just wanted to play around with layouts. Right now I want to stack a checkbox on top of text label. I am using the following xml layout which works fine: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.andr...

Need help with layout (jQuery)

I already have this layout created using CSS, but its plagued with issues in IE6 and 7. So I'd like help recreating this layout using jQuery (and jQuery Only) for max compatibility. The only difficult part is the vertically and horizontally resizable (on browser resize as well) content area. Edited to add: I need to use jQuery for res...

Can I mix declarative and programmatic layout in GWT 2.0?

I'm trying to redo an existing panel that I made before GWT 2.0 was released. The panel has a few text fields and a scrollable panel below in a VerticalPanel. What I'd like to do is to make the scrollable panel with UIBinder and then add that to a VerticalPanel Below is an example I created to illustrate this: public class ScrollTabl...

Android "hover" event in custom layout

I have a custom layout that I have written that basically just displays a bunch of ImageViews. I am handing onTouch events for all the ImageViews in my layout. However, if a user touches one imageView and then drags over another ImageView, I would like to be able to handle that as well. How would I go about capturing this behavior? ...

calling pin / unpin function thru javascript for jquery border layout

Hello, I am trying to do pin/unpin east and west panel thru a sparate javascript call. I am trying to replicate like http://layout.jquery-dev.net/demos/complex.html How to do it.? ...

android layout question

Hi, Currently I'm working on a dialog which consists of title, description, tags and footer. The title can be long and in this case the text should automatically be displayed in multiple lines. The description is also longer and should fill multiple lines. At the bottom of the dialog has to be the footer (also if the title and descripti...

TabControl.VerticalAlignment = Stretch doesn't do anything.

Hell, I am trying to make a TabControl to auto resize according to the its outer space(it's in a StackPanel): <Window x:Class="Window1" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation" xmlns:x="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml" Height="100"> <Grid> <StackPanel> <TabControl ...

android: how to resize dialog

Hi, I would like to create a dialog-style form which would fill the bigger screen area (left, right, top, bottom padding 10px). I defined the style "CupCakeDialog" the following way: <style name="CupcakeDialog" parent="android:Theme.Dialog"> <item name="android:windowAnimationStyle">@null</item> </style> and by running the activ...

Tabular layout: improve design?

I'm designing a form: image and code below. There are about 30 more sections like this, and I just need the inputs (right) to align to the list (center). What's the best way to do this? Can I just alter my table HTML to make it work? <table border="1"> <thead> <tr> <th>Category</th> <th>Risk Factors</th...

FlowLayoutPanel AutoSize height not working

I'm working on a UserControl that consists of a bunch of ComboBoxes arranged horizontally across the top of the control in a flowlayoutpanel, and a datagridview directly below the flowlayoutpanel that takes up all remaining space on the control. I need to be able to hide all the dropdowns easily, so I have a SplitContainer with Orientat...

How to resize a android webview after adding data in it

In a layout (linear, vertical) hierarchy I've got several view and one of them is a WebView. They all have same parameters: android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="wrap_content" For all views the spacing between element is correctly handled but for the Webview there is a lot of spaces after the displayed text inside....

How can I make a footer's height expand to take up the remainder of the screen?

I'm looking to do something like: Where I have a footer at the bottom of the page which has a height that expands to take up the remainder of the screen. Is it possible to do this in CSS? ...

Imageview - a small problem

My problem is that i have placed an ImageView and 6 TextViews as below in a relative layout... ------------- ---------- --------- | | |txtview1| |txtview2| | ImageView | ---------- --------- | | |txtview3| |txtview4| | | ---------- --------- | | |txtview5| |txtview6| | | ---...

pure css layout for a web application?

I'm working on a web app that currently has a table-based layout. Ideally I'd like to go to pure css, or failing that, a hybrid tables-and-css layout* . I've banged my head against the wall trying to understand css layouts and positioning. The main problem I'm encountering is that, depending on the state of the app, I have different th...

How can I make elements arranged in a horizontal StackPanel share a common baseline for their text content?

Here's a trivial example of the problem I'm having: <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal"> <Label>Foo</Label> <TextBox>Bar</TextBox> <ComboBox> <TextBlock>Baz</TextBlock> <TextBlock>Bat</TextBlock> </ComboBox> <TextBlock>Plugh</TextBlock> <TextBlock VerticalAlignment="Bottom">XYZZY</TextBlock> </St...

Best android layout for a set of columns

On an Android layout, I'd like to have a set of rows, each with two TextViews. The leftmost column of TextViews should be right-aligned, just left of an imaginary centerline down the screen. The rightmost column should be left-aligned. Examples of this can be seen at http://stuff.greenberg.org/ScopeCalc.htm What's the best layout to u...

How to implement JSplitPane in the BorderLayout?

HI, how can i use the JSplitPane so that they show up in the borders of a BorderLayout??? So that i can resize each sise (NORTH, EAST, WEST, SOUTH, CENTER). Thanks ...

Laying out overlapping rectangles

I am trying to layout a bunch of overlapping rectangles that start out like this: The 2-pass algorithm I thought up is roughly: // Pass 1 - Move all rectangles to the right until they do not overlap any other rectangles rects = getRectsSortedOnTopLeft(); // topmost first, all rects same size foreach(rect in rects) { while(rect.col...

repeat-y layout issue

update: at bottom I am trying to get a layout working where the body background image is also the background for the first 123px of the main content div. I then want to put a background on the main content div (starting at 123px) and then fill down. However repeat-y obviously fills both up and down and therefore repeats over the top of...