allow a TabBar, through a new parameter, to resize its children so that they take all the available space in the bar

[Sebastien Brunot]

Attached is a patch that add a parameter spreadChildren to dojox.mobile.TabBar. If this parameter is set to true, the bar buttons are resized so that they take all the available space in the bar. The patch also includes automated tests for this feature, plus manual tests.

[Sebastien Brunot]

IBM CCLA

[Eric Durocher]

Looks mainly good, I am just a little concerned that the feature was already (half) there, except that children were resized only on screens < 500 pixels. So maybe that should be made more explicit... What about fill="auto/always/never", where auto is the "old" behavior (i.e. barStyle=tabBar and screen width < 500), and auto would be by default of course.

[Sebastien Brunot]

Sounds good: I've attached a new version of the patch that defines the "fill" parameter, instead of using spreadChildren.

[Sebastien Brunot]

add the fill parameter to TabBar. If set to "auto" (default value), behave as in 1.8. If set to "always", resize its children so that they evenly fill the entire bar space. If set to "never", do not resize the children. (IBM CCLA).

[cjolif]

In [30613]:

refs #16717. add a fill parameter to TabBar?. If set to "auto" (default value), behave as in 1.8. If set to "always", resize its children so that they evenly fill the entire bar space. If set to "never", do not resize the children. Thanks Sebastien Brunot (IBM CCLA).

[cjolif]

ticket will be closed once added to release notes and documented.

[Sebastien Brunot]

The patch does not work with the holodark theme.

[Sebastien Brunot]

Fix the issue with the holodark theme on TabBar with fill="always" (IBM CCLA)

[cjolif]

In [30680]:

refs #16717. Fix the issue with the holodark theme on TabBar with fill="always". Thanks Sebastien Brunot and Damien Mandrioli (IBM CCLA).

[dylan]

Patches were landed 3 years ago, closing as fixed.