layout

Rails - Application layout with SQL?

Hello, all my fellow coders! I've got a problem ohh chok!.. :P Now my problem i that i'm trying to make a design for a bigger site, it's going good. Until i should make the content/news slider. It should take data from multiple tables and returning to the application.html.erb. So it is take reviews and announcements just the latest 5 ...

iPhone View Shifted When Run

Hi all, I'm very new to iPhone development so please bear with me. I'm following the tutorial from Apple for creating a "Hello World" application (found here). The problem is (and this is a problem I've had with all tutorials I've attempted to follow) that when I create the application with a subview inside the window, the subview its...

How does Froyo display a Dialog atop the home screen?

I upgraded my Nexus One a few days ago with 2.2 (Froyo). This morning when I went to use it I saw a Dialog sitting atop the home/launcher screen notifying me that an update was available and that I could choose to upgrade now or later. My question is, what API mechanisms is this using to show a Dialog (perhaps an AlertDialog) atop the h...

How do I center a widget in the middle of the screen in vanilla GWT?

Hi, I wish to center a widget in the middle of the browser window (horizontally and vertically). I do not wish to stretch the widget to fill the root pane nor do I wish to use a popup window. Is there a simple way this can be achieved? Thanks, ...

Any PHP Frameworks that use a Layout and Block system like Magento?

While it is most typically touted as a fully-featured shopping cart system, Magento is an awesome framework to boot. Of particular awesomeness is the layout system. In essence a page is created from "Blocks" which all inherit from an abstract class which does not assume the use of template files. These blocks are assembled according to a...

How to place JButtons at a certain coordinate in a JFrame

Hi, I want to know how to place JButtons at a particular coordinate in the JFrame. All day I have seen layouts. This does not suit my purpose. I would prefer something like setBounds. Rumour has it that it does not work but setLocation does. I tried it but, the program disregards the setLocation line and sets it to a Layout. CODE i...

widget with two(or more) layout

I need the way to setup widgets inside other widget with different layouts... it is something like we have widget divided by one layout into two parts with labels, and this widget have other widget inside with layout like on attached image and we have only 4 widgets: main widget, label one widget, label two widget, button widget, and ...

Variable Layout in Swing

Hi, How would you go about getting a decent looking gui generated when you don't know how many components you will have and how big they will be? A user, for instance, enters how many textfields they want and which of those textfields are grouped in bordered panels and the program generates this. I've been using GridLayout, but the p...

Asp.net MasterPage equivalent in Ruby on Rails, Trying to define a site wide layout.

Asp.net WebForms and MVC has a concept of Masterpages which make it easy to define a one time layout for all the page of your site. In Rails I'm struggling to find an equivalent usage pattern or feature. From what I've read it's really easy to define a layout in every action with: layout: 'viewname' Now that seemed pretty ceremonial...

Android VideoView LinearLayout LayoutParams

My app plays a video using VideoView. I am using a LinearLayout to add some text, the video and then some buttons. My question is what kind of layout params can I use for the VideoView to make sure it plays well in all phones? Basically, when in portrait mode, I want the complete width to be used, and video height to be used. When in l...

left div + right div + center div = 100% width. How to realise?

I have three divs and one main div: <div id="container" style="width:100%;"> <div id="left" style="width:201px; float:left;"> .... </div> <div id="centre" style="float:left;"> .... </div> <div id="right" style="width:135px; float:right;"> .... </div> </div> How it is possible to make centre d...

Problem with image + text layout in IE 7 & Opera

There is div container and 2 divs inside. It should be image(first div) and text near it with chosen distance between them. The code below works fine in Firefox/Chrome/Safari, but it works incorrect in IE7/Opera. xhtml: <div id="mainContact"> <div id="contactIcon">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <img id="pho...

Android - how to use a random image, in it's original size, as a background.

I'd like to be able to use an image as my background in a relative layout, without it stretching. I don't want to just enter the images details into an XML file, as I want to use different images, with different sizes. I've tried the following, but it just stretches the images (I know the left, top, right and bottom variables have the w...

Eclipse RCP Dialog: Large Text box won't scroll - instead creates a huge dialog window!

Hi All, I've been banging away at this for a while now and I can't seem to get anywhere. I've tried all of the examples I can find online and nothing seems to work! I haven't been able to find much on this problem which leads me to think I'm missing something basic. . . In my Eclipse RCP program I want to display a dialog that will sho...

collapsible layouts in flex

Hi, I'm just finished my first month of getting to grips with flex. All of my projects so far have be very small fixed sized containers with everything in the application resting in an absolute position. The next up and coming project is going to require a more dynamic layout and need some advice. The app will consist of 3 container ...

[CakePHP] Custom static layout

hi all, i want to add static html page layout for my application (advanced search layout). i would like that it will be accessed by url http://myapp/search tryed to create custom controller (search_controller.php) and index view (view/search/index.ctp), but cake requires database table search. also, followed info from http://cake-p...

100% Css-layout with header and footer

I'm trying to create a layout with a header and footer (both of which have a fixed heights) and a content-div between them that is fills the remaining space. Within the content-div I want to have divs with heights that are based on percent values (with the content-div's heihgt as parent). I can't figure out how to do this? Here is an il...

Is there any way to do a conditional in a NLog layout?

I'm trying to create a NLog layout config like so: layout = "${callsite} > ${message} (${exception:format=tostring})" The output for this layout is (when I test it): TestProject.Program.Main > exception thrown (System.Exception: exception message) However, if I try to output a message that doesn't have an exception, it shows up ...

Layout an ASP.NET web-application without the direct use of html and css

Are there possibilities to layout an ASP.NET web-application without directly using CSS and HTML ? I am mainly coming from the desktop-development world and I am in the first place familiar with the usage of layout- and container-controls like panels, tables, and so on. ...

Android ListView that does not scroll?

I'm trying to make a layout that is something similar to how the android market is...where say under comments there is what appears to be a ListView but it does not scroll (the whole page scroll but not the comments). I'm not sure if its even a ListView but I want something that looks like the list view (ie. have those divider bars and w...