widget style cleanup
Andrew Coles
andrew_coles at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Sep 14 13:24:56 BST 2004
On Tuesday 14 Sep 2004 12:15, Andrew Coles wrote:
> I'll look into it, and see if it seems at all feasible.
OK, the layout side of things should be relatively straight forward: CSS boxes
can do the same layouts that QT layout widgets can; further, the equivalent
layouts can be defined once in a stylesheet so the filesize of ported
dialogues, and the server load, should be quite reasonable.
The first significant hitch I've come across is that I can't find any way of
performing in-line calculations in the document to determine, for example,
the height of a scrollbar for a QListBox.
Say you had a QListBox--visible height 160 pixels--containing 20 items, each
20 pixels high. That means there's 400 pixels of content to show in 160
pixels of space - so a vertical scrollbar will be added. Say the scrollbar
arrow heads are 'x' pixels high each, then the slider on the scrollbar needs
to be:
((160 / 400) * (160 - 2x)
i.e. the fraction of the total height shown multiplied by the height of the
scroll bar
So the document would need to do this calculation on-the-fly: the height of
the scroll arrows and, if the listbox items contain text, the items in the
list vary - it's not always 20. The 160 pixels bit would be fixed in the
layout, so the final calculation is
((height of box / (20 * height of a list box item)) * (height of box - 2 *
height of scroll arrows)
Unless someone knows of a way of doing this sort of calculation on the client
side as the document is being rendered - perhaps (ECMA|Java)script - I can't
think of a way of getting around the problem. I'm no expert in web page
design -- I've learnt about CSS layouts just to investigate how feasible my
idea is -- so if anyone has a solution to this problem please let me know!
Thanks,
Andrew
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