Allow absolute sizing for SplitContainer

[dojo@…]

It would be nice to have a way to specify an absolute sizing for a pane in a SplitContainer?. The sizeShare attribute currently only supports a percentage value. One use case would be similar to the Windows Explorer with a pane on the left that can be resized by dragging the splitter, but remains a fixed size when the window is resized.

Ideally, the sizing method would allow all the same dimensioning values supported in CSS (em, in, cm, px, %, etc). To allow for variable units for separate panes, you could allow one or more of the panes to be auto sized to take up the remaining space similar to the * dimension for a frameset.

[guest]

If you don't need to resize the panel, you can set the sizeMin to say 200px and set the sizeShare to 0 That panel then won't resize as the SplitContainer? is resized, however you cannot size the panel smaller than the sizeMin you set so not what you are after.

[egor.margineanu@…]

Why milestone is changed from 0.4 to 0.5. This is not a complex task. I've extended SplitContainer? to support px or % units for sizeShare. If is needed I can add support for other parameters and publish here as patch.

[Adam Peller]

is this something we want to do for dijit?

[bill]

No, sorry, I don't want to support this in Dijit. The SplitContainer? code is complex enough as it is.