AceGUI: filling rest of free frame space with InlineGroup

[thebdc]

I'm playing around a bit with AceGUI, but I got a problem. What I want to do is to have a InlineGroup container with a fixed width on the left side of the frame, and a InlineGroup container that fills the right space of the frame (and also changes its width when the frame is resized by the user). What it looks right now is this:



As you can see the right part of the frame is empty. Here's the code:

local AceGUI = LibStub("AceGUI-3.0")

local f = AceGUI:Create("Frame")
f:SetCallback("OnClose",function(widget) AceGUI:Release(widget) end)
f:SetTitle("test")
f:SetLayout("Flow")

local container1 = AceGUI:Create("InlineGroup")
container1:SetWidth(150)
container1:SetFullHeight(true)
container1:SetLayout("Fill")

local container2 = AceGUI:Create("InlineGroup")
container2:SetFullWidth(true)
container2:SetFullHeight(true)
container2:SetLayout("Fill")

f:AddChild(container1)
f:AddChild(container2)

Anybody got an idea how to do that in a proper way?

[thebdc]

Apparently the idea is to use a custom layout, something like this:

local AceGUI = LibStub("AceGUI-3.0")

local tconcat, tremove, tinsert = table.concat, table.remove, table.insert

local function CreateDispatcher(argCount)
   local code = [[
        local xpcall, eh = ...
        local method, ARGS
        local function call() return method(ARGS) end
    
        local function dispatch(func, ...)
            method = func
            if not method then return end
            ARGS = ...
            return xpcall(call, eh)
        end
    
        return dispatch
    ]]
   
   local ARGS = {}
   for i = 1, argCount do ARGS[i] = "arg"..i end
   code = code:gsub("ARGS", tconcat(ARGS, ", "))
   return assert(loadstring(code, "safecall Dispatcher["..argCount.."]"))(xpcall, errorhandler)
end

local Dispatchers = setmetatable({}, {__index=function(self, argCount)
         local dispatcher = CreateDispatcher(argCount)
         rawset(self, argCount, dispatcher)
         return dispatcher
end})
Dispatchers[0] = function(func)
   return xpcall(func, errorhandler)
end

local function safecall(func, ...)
   return Dispatchers[select("#", ...)](func, ...)
end

AceGUI:RegisterLayout("Custom_Layout", function(content, children)
      if children[1] then
         children[1]:SetWidth(150)
         children[1].frame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", content, "TOPLEFT", 0, 0)
         children[1].frame:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", content, "BOTTOMLEFT", 0, 0)
         children[1].frame:Show()
      end
      
      if children[2] then
         children[2].frame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", children[1].frame, "TOPRIGHT", 0, 0)
         children[2].frame:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", content, "BOTTOMRIGHT", 0, 0)
         children[2].frame:Show()
      end
      
      safecall(content.obj.LayoutFinished, content.obj, nil, nil)
end)


local f = AceGUI:Create("Frame")
f:SetCallback("OnClose",function(widget) AceGUI:Release(widget) end)
f:SetTitle("test")
f:SetLayout("Custom_Layout")

local container1 = AceGUI:Create("InlineGroup")
container1:SetLayout("Fill")

local container2 = AceGUI:Create("InlineGroup")
container2:SetLayout("Fill")

f:AddChild(container1)
f:AddChild(container2)

The safecall stuff is taken from AceGUI-3.0.lua

[Brusalk]

Apparently the idea is to use a custom layout, something like this:

local AceGUI = LibStub("AceGUI-3.0")

local tconcat, tremove, tinsert = table.concat, table.remove, table.insert

local function CreateDispatcher(argCount)
   local code = [[
        local xpcall, eh = ...
        local method, ARGS
        local function call() return method(ARGS) end
    
        local function dispatch(func, ...)
            method = func
            if not method then return end
            ARGS = ...
            return xpcall(call, eh)
        end
    
        return dispatch
    ]]
   
   local ARGS = {}
   for i = 1, argCount do ARGS[i] = "arg"..i end
   code = code:gsub("ARGS", tconcat(ARGS, ", "))
   return assert(loadstring(code, "safecall Dispatcher["..argCount.."]"))(xpcall, errorhandler)
end

local Dispatchers = setmetatable({}, {__index=function(self, argCount)
         local dispatcher = CreateDispatcher(argCount)
         rawset(self, argCount, dispatcher)
         return dispatcher
end})
Dispatchers[0] = function(func)
   return xpcall(func, errorhandler)
end

local function safecall(func, ...)
   return Dispatchers[select("#", ...)](func, ...)
end

AceGUI:RegisterLayout("Custom_Layout", function(content, children)
      if children[1] then
         children[1]:SetWidth(150)
         children[1].frame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", content, "TOPLEFT", 0, 0)
         children[1].frame:SetPoint("BOTTOMLEFT", content, "BOTTOMLEFT", 0, 0)
         children[1].frame:Show()
      end
      
      if children[2] then
         children[2].frame:SetPoint("TOPLEFT", children[1].frame, "TOPRIGHT", 0, 0)
         children[2].frame:SetPoint("BOTTOMRIGHT", content, "BOTTOMRIGHT", 0, 0)
         children[2].frame:Show()
      end
      
      safecall(content.obj.LayoutFinished, content.obj, nil, nil)
end)


local f = AceGUI:Create("Frame")
f:SetCallback("OnClose",function(widget) AceGUI:Release(widget) end)
f:SetTitle("test")
f:SetLayout("Custom_Layout")

local container1 = AceGUI:Create("InlineGroup")
container1:SetLayout("Fill")

local container2 = AceGUI:Create("InlineGroup")
container2:SetLayout("Fill")

f:AddChild(container1)
f:AddChild(container2)

The safecall stuff is taken from AceGUI-3.0.lua

What's the purposes of the safecall stuff? I'm mostly just curious as I'm not seeing an immediate advantage to that complexity unless it's getting around something related to blizzard's protected calls.