Hi What would be the best way to have a column (row) layout with one e hideabl component? Would you just muck with LAYOUT-DESCRIPTION at run time? Thanks Marco -- Marco Antoniotti http://bioinformatics.nyu.edu NYU Courant Bioinformatics Group tel. +1 - 212 - 998 3488 715 Broadway 10th FL fax. +1 - 212 - 998 3484 New York, NY, 10003, U.S.A.
Marco Antoniotti wrote: > Hi > > What would be the best way to have a column (row) layout with one e > hideabl component? > Would you just muck with LAYOUT-DESCRIPTION at run time? > Take a look at capi:switchable-layout (s). You can "hide" the component in a layer of this kind of layout. Wade
Marco Antoniotti wrote: > What would be the best way to have a column (row) layout with > one hideable component? I suppose that depends on what should happen when you hide the component. If it's contained in another layout, should it collapse or should it keep its previous size? For simple cases, you could probably just use HIDE-PANE. But I would be inclined to use DEFINE-LAYOUT and friends (INTERPRET-DESCRIPTION, CALCULATE-CONSTRAINTS and CALCULATE-LAYOUT) to create a new layout class that behaves exactly the way you want it to. > Would you just muck with LAYOUT-DESCRIPTION at run time? As opposed to at compile time, you mean? (Just kidding ;-) Sure, I think mucking with LAYOUT-DESCRIPTION is OK. I'd feel a bit more comfortable when doing this with a layout-class that I defined myself. But maybe that's more defensive than necessary. Arthur