I’ve been trying to use the layout containers and responsive layouts, but they seem to be so buggy and almost impossible to work with, I kind of assume they’re just a work in progress, and I should wait for some future release. But just in case they are thought to be “ready”, here’s the first 5 minutes of trying …
I want a column, with multiple rows - each row will have a label and a field.
Create a ‘column’ - how do i specify I want it to expand to fill the width of the card? and to resize with the card ?
Drag in one row.
Drag in another (and place it beside the first - it gets shifted to below the first, as expected). But the column container doesn’t increase in size, so the second one is half-in and half-out at the bottom. And as I move the mouse over each row container, their label pops up, saying ‘column’ (though the property inspector remains at row).
Click on the upper row, and the property inspector changes to saying “column”.
Drag a field into the first row, then another field - again it gets placed properly beside the first field - but the row container doesn’t grow, so this field is only partly within the row.
Tried to drag in another field, and accidentally dropped it in the outer ‘column’ container - and it is repositioned to below the rows, but (visually) totally outside the column container. Clicking on the container makes it disappear - but enlarging the column container now shows that the field is within it.
The top row (which contains two fields), can be selected, the pop-up describes it as a row, and it can be resized. But the lower row (which contains nothing) is described in the pop-up as simply “Widget”, and cannot be selected.
The whole mechanism of selecting nested containers and widgets seems totally hit-or-miss - clicking and/or double-clicking sometimes selects what I expect, but often doesn’t.
And we could really do with some examples or documentation to describe how we should tell the various containers to grow, stretch, resize, etc.
So - an hour or two wasted, I’ll look at responsive layouts again in DP 15 or so …
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