Textarea rendering problem within a dialog

[jackett_dad@…]

There is some history to this ticket already in ticket 5483. Here I have provided a small sample that shows a simple page that displays a text area that renders and is constrained within a layout region. A button will bring up a dialog that shows a text area with the same settings but contains a double scroll bar.

I tried to, within this dialog, put the text area within a table, the code of which I commented out. With the table in place, the text area in the dialog is completely inaccessible.

I need for this textarea to behave like the one in the main page. It needs to size like the first one, but the dialog textarea is scrunched vertically. I also need it to be constrained by the layout container, but I can't tell if that is working because of the fact that it isn't rendering at all if it is within a table.

[guest]

Sorry, I tried to replace the attachment. In the second version I applied the style display:block to the dialog text area which handles the constraint within the layout container (a step on my part that should be unnecessary, and thus my original and valid report).

[guest]

This doesn't solve the issue per se, but it gets me around to where I am no longer concerned with this as a bug.

The solution for me, thanks to Bill's help, was to copy SimpleTextarea? from 1.1 and rename _FormValueWidget to _FormWidget. Then I had to create the control implicitly instead of programatically, which is only a small inconvenience. The control fills the area it is contained in instead of honoring the cols and rows setting, but again, very small inconvenience. It works and I can use it.

Thanks.

[bill]

Closing this ticket for now since user found a workaround... seems like there might still be a bug with creating widgets dynamically that are inside of BorderContainer? (indirectly via a ContentPane?) but it's a rather unusual case, so let's see if it's an issue for others.