I'm trying to do something I thought the GridFieldManager would be tailor made for:
Name: [ EditField]
Phone: [EditField]
Using LabelFields (non-Focusable) in column 0 and EditFields (with no labels) in column 1.
I wanted everything in column 0 right justified with the ":" against the column 0-1 border and I wanted all of my EditFields to take up all of the width of column 1 with pretty little borders.
Something that would take me about 5 minutes for iPhone. (I say that because I get really, really pissed when I spend half a day doing something that is SO simple on other platforms.)
So my problems:
1) The EditField runs off the edge of column 1. This same field looks fine if I add it to the container VFM that holds the GridManager. No amount of mucking with column properties or overridding getPreferredWidth() etc. could fix this issue. I gave up and used some hack I found the BB website for creating fixed width/height EditFields. I emphasize *HACK because, really, how hard could it be to create a STANDARD EditField with a fixed width/height. Something many people would us.
I suspect there is a layout manager embedded in the cell that I can't seem to control.
2) Even though my LabelFields in column 0 are clearly Field.NON_FOCUSABLE (and work correctly when added to my container VFM instead of the GFM) they still accept focus. Again, I suspect there is some container these LabelFields are placed in that I cannot control that is focusable.
So my question iss: has anyone used GFM for anything other than simple tabular data? What am I missing? Am I wrong to be so pissed that when I write for BB, I spend SO MUCH **bleep** TIME on simple layout tasks???
