How could this be realized? (see URL)

[Magnus]

Hello,

I wonder how this can be realized:

http://www.jinchess.com/chessboard/composer/

I believe the left board is not a HTML Table or a subclass of it
(Grid, ...).

How would you do this?

Magnus

[Thomas Broyer]

1. Use any developer tool to inspect the HTML DOM (I think the
chessboard is actually probably a Grid)
2. Ask the developer directly?

[Magnus]

I am trying to do something similar with a Grid, but I have problems
with the pixel sizes:

- I cannot really contol the size of the cells. I can set the height,
but not the width. The width depends on the width of the whole grid
- when I add an image into a cell, the size of whole row/column may
change when the image is slightly too big

Of course one can deal with these things, by computing the size of the
whole grid, and using images with the correct sizes, but as a result
the whole thing is based on tricky workarounds and not really
predictable.

I am thinking about using the gwt-Canvas widget, but this is in an
experimental state and I don't know if I should build on it. What do
you think about this?

Thanks
Magnus

[Andreas Horst]

Hey Magnus,

I had a similar problem where I had to control the dimensions of grid cells. Setting the dimension directly does not work. What I did then was to insert SimplePanel into each cell and set the dimension of these SimplePanels.

This is also sort of a workaround but you will not have to rely on Image sizes. You can simply adjust dimensions by methods of SimplePanel. You can even set background colors via getElement().getStyle().

Greetings,

Andreas

2010/6/25 Magnus <alpine...@googlemail.com>

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