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Drawer

An animated component to hide or show information

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The Drawer gives you the opportunity to have information (UI widgets) available the visitor, but only show them when the information is needed. Click the header, and the information is smoothly revealed. Click again, and it's rolled back in.

Even though IE6 and IE7 are not explicitly supported, they seem to work somewhat decently with certain components. YMMV.

Sample code

@SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class DrawerTest extends Application {
    @Override
    public void init() {
        final Window mainWindow = new Window("Testproject Application");
        setMainWindow(mainWindow);

        final Layout layout = new VerticalLayout();
        layout.addComponent(new Button("First"));
        layout.addComponent(new Button("Second"));

        final Drawer drawer = new Drawer("Button drawer", layout);
        // Drawer is designed to work best with explicitly defined widths.
        drawer.setWidth("20em");
        mainWindow.addComponent(drawer);
    }
}

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Version

  • Fixed a bug related to disabling and re-enabling the Drawer.
  • Known issue: Disabling the Drawer while it is doing the close animation will make the drawer to close instantly, but a blank area is re-open-animated.
Released
2011-02-03
Maturity
STABLE
License
Apache License 2.0

Compatibility

Framework
Vaadin 6.2+
Vaadin 6.3+ in 1.1.8
Browser
Internet Explorer
Firefox
Opera
Safari
Google Chrome
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