Hi Yiannis Alexopoulos,

     First of all, forgive me, but could you provide me with more detail information regarding this? Do you refer this to our AutoFit Column in WebGrid? Also, may I know which component that we are talking about in here?

     Thank you and have a nice day.

Best Regards,

Andi Santoso

Sorry I meant the new WPF / Silverlight  components in Client UI, UXAutoFitStackPanel, UXAutoFitDockPanel and UXOverflowStackPanel

Hi Yiannis,

These autofit panels are mainly used in ToolBar and ToolGroup to provide overflow and auto-fit layout feature. To understand how it works, try to create a UXToolBar with two or three UXToolGroup inside it, then add several UXToolBarButton to each of the UXToolGroup.

Run your sample in the browser. Then, try to resize your browser to a smaller width. You'll notice that the ToolBar will automatically maintain its size by moving the exceeding items (called overflow items) to the overflow menu which is accessible from the small indicator in the most right edge.

One of the unique features in our ToolBar is that you can have several groups in a toolbar and determine which groups to participate with the overflow calculation. We'll have various samples in the RTM that brings together all these features to allow you easily build commercial-class UIs, such as Windows 7 toolbar, iTunes toolbar, iPad toolbar, and so on.

Although these autofit panels are currently used in ToolBar and ToolGroup, there maybe similar scenarios that can effectively utilize these panels. Let me know if there's something you want to achieve with these panels. Thank you.

Hope this helps,
Jimmy.