[patch][cla] BorderContainer collapsible feature

[Adam Peller]

Not sure what to call this exactly -- please make suggestions here -- but I think we need an option on the edge panes to have a little icon, sort of like an AccordionPane?, to collapse/expand the pane in the layout. Shouldn't be too hard to do.

[dante]

(In [12404]) experimental expandopane in dojox - refs #5689 test has working bordercontainer with three children (two expando's and a tab in the center). left expando has three tabs (bottom aligned) and center tab has accordionContainer. right expando has AccordionContainer? as child.

[Sam Foster]

[CLA] [PATCH] Adds (partial) support for vertical orientation expand/collapse.

[Sam Foster]

expandoPane_20080219.patch goes some way towards supporting expand/collapse in vertical as well as horizontal orientation for the dojox.layout.ExpandoPane?. Sorry, didnt get to tests and css but I wanted to put this back on the stack for the next person.

[dante]

(In [12518]) refs #5689 - add top/bottom expando option based on sfoster's patch. adds new test, and other cleanups.

[bill]

I'd like for this to be in dijit eventually, possibly a different architecture where the code is in BorderContainer? itself not in a separate widget.

[dylan]

What's the plan on this?

[dante]

to be merged w/ genro's patch pending CLA reception. sent friday, allegedy. refs #6781

[bill]

Let's do the integration of collapsability into dijit for 1.3; 1.2 is focusing on purely visual issues.

As I said above, I hadn't envisioned doing this as a separate widget (ie, requiring the user to use an ExpandoPane to wrap their "real" widget), but rather to have it built in to BorderContainer, although it's up for discussion.

In any case, need to make sure the borders show up correctly so should wait for Nikolai to finish the refactoring (#6437, #6438, #6768). (Note that nesting a TabContainer inside an ExpandoPane could exacerbate the border problem.)

[dante]

I want to say this is fixed. There is a ToggleSplitter in DojoX, though iirc requires you to subclass BorderContainer and overwrite the private _splitterClass variable?

ExpandoPane provides any leftover use case functionality. Thinking about it, it may be possible for ExpandoPane to be title-less, but that just makes it a ContentPane with a ToggleSplitter setup, huh?

[bill]

bumping 1.4 tickets to 1.5, and most 1.3 tickets to 1.4

[dante]

The goal is to make ExpandoPane? work and merge into Dijit (afaik). Marking this as fixed because this was part of the motiviation. Obviously there are other UI nits that could come of this, but the basic premise is some sort of toggle-able pane needs to exist in BC. Expando has the most momentum.

[bill]

OK, marking this as dojox since that's where ExpandoPane is; we can have another ticket for merging the functionality into dijit.