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Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

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    Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

    Just generically speaking, is there some reason not to use containers rather than panels in a mobile device? IOW's you might have one panel w. a bunch of containers and just use a hidden field to set the active container (programmatically).
    Peter
    AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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    https://www.alphabasesolutions.com
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    Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

    I just find panels have a lot more built in features/behaviors that you would have to code into containers.

    I've been using panels more in desktop along with mobile.

    Tom

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      #3
      Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

      Can you give me an example or two?
      Peter
      AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

       [email protected]
      https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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        Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

        Hi Peter,

        I now build almost all my main UX components with panels, mostly three panels left to right with icons that pull out side panels.

        The image ending in 21 shows a screen shot of an entry screen for time/project tracking.

        It uses a combination of panels for left to right and top to bottom along with containers in the panels.

        The tricky part on this UX was how to populate seven list controls from one callback. Otherwise it took way too long.


        The icons on the left and right have pull-outs that when clicked open side panels, similar to windows, that allow for additional entry or features.

        The other two examples are three panels side by side. In the one example that shows no data (couldn't show anything as it's all confidential) these are again three panels left to right. But here the panels have been designed so the UX works both on desktop, where you see the three panels, and on a mobile device where you see only one panel but you can navigate to the others to complete the actions. That is the image called "mobile", the same UX as the image name ending in 36.

        Hope this is helpful.

        Tom
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          Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

          Thanks for your effort, Tom. It makes sense for what you are doing. I was just trying to think outside the box where in my case the app will only be used on a phone and thought that using containers might simplify things.
          Peter
          AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

           [email protected]
          https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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            Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

            If I didn't want to use Panels for some reason, then I'd use a ControlBar with Disclosures and Injectible Content Containers. It works and looks great.

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              #7
              Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

              Thanks David. My client is using an older version of A5 - just before the controlbars were introduced. Anyway, he has elected to go with panels. My interest in containers was highly motivated before I found the {dialog.object}.panelGetActive([ UXPanelName ]) method that Tom B. pointed out to me in another thread.
              Peter
              AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

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                #8
                Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

                Of course. You should probably include the target Alpha release version and build being used for these types of questions given that your version is at least 7 months old. Lotsa great stuff going into Alpha releases.

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                  #9
                  Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

                  I suppose. But client is king and Alpha is expensive.
                  Peter
                  AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

                   [email protected]
                  https://www.alphabasesolutions.com

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                    #10
                    Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

                    Sorry... that wasn't actually what I meant. If you post your target version then suggestions can be made for that version.

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                      #11
                      Re: Philosophical Question: Panels or Containers?

                      One other advantage of panels is the ability to get height to 100% with little effort.

                      We mix both, both are available in the responsive layout settings.

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