A container is a kind of widget. It holds multiple widgets and exposes public methods to manage their child widgets. One can configure a layout manager for the container to position all the child widgets in the container. qooxdoo provides different containers for different purposes.
Let's check different containers provided by the qooxdoo framework and understand the purpose of each container. Once you understand the purpose of each container, you can select the right container when you design your application.
Whenever the content widget size (width
and height)
is larger than the container size (width
and height)
, the Scroll
container provides vertical, or horizontal, or both scroll bars automatically. You have to set the Scroll
container's size carefully to make it work properly. The Scroll
container is used most commonly if the application screen size is large.
The Scroll
container has a fixed layout and it can hold a single child. So, there is no need to configure the...