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FormLayoutAdvanced has the following properties:

  • It supports the alignment of UI elements across container boundaries. It is also possible to arrange UI elements cascaded in different rows.

    The figure below shows an example of this:

    This graphic is explained in the accompanying text.

  • The layout data for a UI element in a container, which a FormLayoutAdvanced is assigned to, is provided by FormDataAdvanced.

  • To create a newspaper page layout like with FormLayout, we recommend you use a LayoutContainer. This reduces the nesting depth.

  • The height of the FormLayoutAdvanced in the form of rowSpan must be specified for each UI element.

    Note Note

    The height of the layout cell does not adjust itself automatically to the height of your UI element. If it is too big, it is truncated.

    Other layouts do adjust themselves to the height. For more information, see MatrixLayout and GridLayout.

    End of the note.
Implementation Details

Runtime Class

CL_WD_FORM_LAYOUT_ADV
Properties in View Designer

Name

Type

Initial Value

Bindable

id

STRING

(automatic)

No

colCount

I

8

Yes

Other properties that can be inherited are defined in the related higher-level classes. The related UI elements are:

Dynamic Programming

For dynamic programming, the same properties, events and aggregations are available as in the View Designer. But note that the spelling format and use of upper/lower case is different.

View Designer Name

Runtime Name

Type

colCount

COL_COUNT

I

More Information

For more information about FormLayout and its functions, see FormLayout.