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Resizing the button field height in a form

SnSkill

Hi All, 

I am creating a form using the hiCreateLayoutForm() method where the layout of the form is based on vertical box layout and each item of the vertical box is a grid layout. Each field item is added to the item list of the Grid layout and there are several buttons in the form. 

The general button field code looks like

grid = hiCreateGridLayout( 'grid ?items list( ...........various items ..............

      list(
            hiCreateButton(
            ?name 'vv
            ?buttonText ""
            ?callback "cbfunction()"
     )
     'row 4 'col 3
))

I am trying to increase the height (by either resizing or setting minimum height) of all the buttons in the form created. I have tried various methods like 

1. hiSetFieldMinSize (formName 'vv ?widgetHeight 20) -> but this leads to the error that 'vv is not instantiated

Also hiResizeField seems to work only on hiCreateAppForm method form and not on hiCreateLayoutForm. 

Any help is appreciated, Thanks!

  • You can set the minimum row height in hiCreateGridLayout, but if you just want to set the field size, the form does indeed need to have been instantiated - which is just a matter of using hiInstantiateForm as follows (I changed the min size to 40 to make it stand out a bit more and added a couple of extra fields to show how it works):

    grid = hiCreateGridLayout( 'grid ?items 

list(
     list(
     hiCreateStringField(
       ?name 'ent1
    ) 'row 4 'col 2)

      list(
            hiCreateButton(
            ?name 'vv
            ?buttonText ""
            ?callback "cbfunction()"
     )
     'row 4 'col 3
    )
     list(
     hiCreateStringField(
       ?name 'ent2
    ) 'row 2 'col 2)

      list(
            hiCreateButton(
            ?name 'vv2
            ?buttonText ""
            ?callback "cbfunction()"
     )
     'row 2 'col 3
    )
)
)
hiCreateLayoutForm(
  'ForumForm
  "Forum Form"
  grid
)

hiInstantiateForm(ForumForm)
hiSetFieldMinSize(ForumForm 'vv ?widgetHeight 40)
hiDisplayForm(ForumForm)

    The result looks like this:

    (the bottom right button is the one with the increased height in the example above).

    Andrew

  • in reply to Andrew Beckett

    Hi Andrew, Thanks a lot, You made my task easier. 

    Now I understand what to do.

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