Scout/Concepts/Layout

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The Concepts pages define concepts and elements used in the Eclipse Scout Framework.

Abstract

Scout provides a generic layout on any composite fields as:

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• The Scout documentation has been moved to https://eclipsescout.github.io/.
• The Scout documentation has been moved to https://eclipsescout.github.io/.
• The Scout documentation has been moved to https://eclipsescout.github.io/.

The layout is mainly related to a grid layout with some additional features as weight related resize behavior and some optimizations reducing the used space. There are currently a horizontal and a vertical implementation of the grid layout.

Layout properties

Groupbox Properties

The following group box properties affect the layout of the container. So the fields in the container getting layouted respecting the properties.

Config method	Meaning	Default value
getConfiguredBodyGrid	The layout orientation vertical vs. horizontal. Scout provides two layout strategies: Vertical(VerticalSmartGroupBoxBodyGrid) The fields are placed column first in the grid. (Field01 [x0,y0]; Field02 [x0,y1]...) Horizontal (HorizontalGroupBoxBodyGrid) The fields are placed row first in the grid. (Field01 [x0,y0]; Field02 [x1,y0]...)	VerticalSmartGroupBoxBodyGrid.class
getConfiguredColumnCount	Column count of the layout where child fields are placed in respective to their layout data.	-1 Will be replaced with either the parent groupbox column count or if any of the parent group boxes has a grid column count 2.

Form Field Properties

The form field properties define how a certain form field has to be layout in its container.

Config method	Meaning
getConfiguredGridX	desc
getConfiguredGridY	desc
getConfiguredGridW	desc
getConfiguredGridH	desc
getConfiguredGridWeightX	desc
getConfiguredGridWeightY	desc
getConfiguredGridUseUiWidth	desc
getConfiguredGridUseUiHeight	desc