MAUI: More flexible Layout / Grid widget

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ahaeber
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MAUI: More flexible Layout / Grid widget

The MAUI::Layout widget is very helpful in laying out widgets, especially creating custom widgets that combine a set of other widgets. For example to create widgets to be added into a MAUI::Listbox. However, currently MAUI::Layout is rather limited in means to decide how it lays out the widgets. It would be great if MAUI::Layout could be extended to give you more flexibility in cell-sizes and such, similar to HTML Table, Swing and other UI frameworks.

I've noticed that in Layout.cpp (http://code.google.com/p/mosync/source/browse/MoSync/trunk/libs/MAUI/Layout.cpp) there are large chunks of code that have been commented out. It appears to me that these code blocks would be helpful to add the requested flexibility in the Layout class.

So, I wonder whether there are any plans to uncomment these code blocks & fix what is missing there (i.e., the reason they are commented out).

Would be great to hear about other plans you have in this area.

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Alex Jonsson
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You're dead on right, there are a lot of features which up to now have been stubbed. In the upcoming sprint, a refurbishment of
MAUI is underway. A richer UI is very much on top of our list, rest assure. Expect things to start showing up in the nightly builds shortly.

http://www.mosync.com/nightly-builds

best regards

Alex