[mythtv-theming] can't override size of checkbox

[Jonatan Lindblad]

On 2013-03-16 20:26, Joey Morris wrote:
> Jonatan Lindblad <mythtv at comhem.se> wrote on Sat, Mar 16, 2013 at 06:55:00PM +0100:
>> On 2013-03-16 16:41, Joey Morris wrote:
>>> I'm running 0.26-fixes. I've defined a checkbox widget in base.xml
>>> that looks something like this:
>>>
>>>      <checkbox name="base_checkbox">
>>>        <area>0,0,80,30</area>
>>>        ...
>>>      </checkbox>
>>>
>>> In recordings-ui.xml, I want to inherit from base_checkbox and
>>> override the y-position and the width, so I tried this:
>>>
>>>      <checkbox name="titles" from="base_checkbox">
>>>        <area>0,120,500,30</area>
>>>      </checkbox>
>>>
>>> However, only the y-position was changed. The width was still 80. I
>>> also tested the height, and I couldn't override that, either. I looked
>>> at a few themes, and I could only find examples of people overriding
>>> the checkbox's position, never its size. Is the inability to override
>>> the size a design decision or a bug?
>>
>> It would help if you showed us the complete definition of
>> base_checkbox, although I think you're simply not setting the area
>> of the statetypes or their children to say 0,0,100%,100%.
>
> I've had problems in the past setting the area appropriately for
> statetypes, so that very well could be the problem. Here's my full
> base_checkbox:
>
>    <checkbox name="base_checkbox">
>      <!-- It doesn't appear that the height and width can be overridden. -->
>      <area>0,0,80,34</area>
>      <statetype name="background">

Add <area>0,0,100%,100%</area> here and it should work.

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Jonatan