Wt

Any suggestions?

I'm running into more and more cases where the WTableView columns don't meet the needs of my UI.

Right now I want a simple two column set up where the left column sizes to maximum and the right column contains a small amount of data (a number) but it should never have ellipsis and never wrap.

And the columns should fill the horizontal table space.

Hey,

Currently this is only possible by making your WTableView setLayoutSizeAware(), and the react to size changes (in layoutSizeChanged()) to manually configure the width of the columns (take into account the 7 pixels extra padding per column).

Regards,

koen

What about column width in percentage?

I do know in advance the maximum column width in characters and I am using a non-proportional font.

So I can compute the optimal width for each column in percentage.

But when I try to setColumnWidth() accordingly, all columns get crippled as if they all had 1% width.

What am I missing?

Any idea why the following call loop doesn't work?

WTableView* tableview;
int totalWidthInChars;

/*columns[i]->size is the maximum content size for each column*/

totalWidthInChars = 0;
for( int i=0; i<columnNumber; i++ )
  totalWidthInChars += columns[i]->size;

for( int i=0; i<columnNumber; i++ )
  tableview->setColumnWidth( i, WLength( 100.0*columns[i]->size/totalWidthInChars, WLength::Percentage ) );

As stated in my previous post above, all columns are shown as if they all had the same tiny width.

By using the "Inspect element" by Mozilla Firefox v29 I have found an interesting point.

The "last" container for the table data is a <DIV>

<div  id="oessfvj" class="Wt-tv-contents"
style="position:absolute;width:224.0px;height:1720.0px;left:0.0px;right:auto;top:0.0px;bottom:auto;background-image:url("/resources/themes/default/stripes/stripe20px.gif");">
...
</div>

Within this container I have the columns.

As you can see I have a width of 224px to be divided among 12 columns.

While the "last" whole container that should contain the WTableView has a "width:1017ps" style definition (among all other ones),

Whith last whone container I nean the deapest element within the tree structure still recognizable.

The "last container" for the table data is the container that containds the data but not the header.

The "last container" for the table view is the container that contains the WTableView, there included the header and the scrollbar.

Hey,

You cannot set column widths as a percentage, but the documentation isn't clear about this. We'll fix that.

Regards,

koen

How can I set up an almost optimal column width, then? Any suggestion?

Hey,

You need to use the available width, which you can get from a layout-size-aware parent of the tableview.

See the discussion and solution here: http://redmine.emweb.be/boards/2/topics/2659 (which you actually participated in as well?).

Regards,

koen

As the program should run on a variety of screen sizes, a percentage-like solution would be preferrable over one with fixed widths in pixels.

I understood the previous suggestion but was hoping for a simpler solution...

Hey,

I agree that it would be nicer to have it simpler, but as a workaround it is usable?

Regards,

koen

I will try that and will let you know.