visualbuilder - FormLayout - colWidths: Bug?

Technical Q&A
1

SmartClient 8.0 Eval
Chrome 10

in visual builder, when I try to set Column Widths, I got a validation error (must be a whole number) as in first picture.

If I set them in the xml code:
<DynamicForm numCols=“6” … colWidths=“150,150,100,150,150,200”>

and then I load the view, I got the result in the 2nd picture.

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2

The correct XML for an Array field like colWidths is:

<DynamicForm>
     <colWidths>
         <value>50</value>
         <value>100</value>
     </colWidths>
     ...

However Visual Builder was generating code like your manual attempt, which is a better format anyway, so we’ve added special logic to support both formats for this field. This will be in the next nightly build.

3

great, as usual.

btw, very nice the autoSave feature and the other improvements

4

Are you in the process of updating the current release download?

I’ve just downloaded the SmartClient Full-featured evaluation and the visual builder skin is SilverWave with some glitches, instead of BlackOps…

5

No, this hasn’t been changed. Try clearing your browser cache. If it persists, look at tools/visualBuilder/index.jsp, you should see a <script src=> to load skins/ToolSkin/load_skin.js. If this isn’t working for some reason, you’d get the results you described.

6

oh sorry, false alarm!

btw, what is the “right” way to integrate the new feature of the visual builder in the supported version? Is it possible?

Or, when will you release a new supported version ?

7

Sorry, don’t understand the question. You should use Visual Builder with the version it came with.

8

the question is: can I mix the visual builder in the nightly build with the 8.0 sdk?