Added API to gridlayout to fetch component layout information (column + row + spans)

svn changeset:5950/svn branch:trunk

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/com/itmill/toolkit/ui/GridLayout.java b/src/com/itmill/toolkit/ui/GridLayout.java
index fce2e7f872..66dac51b0a 100644
--- a/src/com/itmill/toolkit/ui/GridLayout.java
+++ b/src/com/itmill/toolkit/ui/GridLayout.java
@@ -1248,4 +1248,23 @@ public class GridLayout extends AbstractLayout implements
         return null;
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns information about the area where given component is layed in the
+     * GridLayout.
+     * 
+     * @param component
+     *            the component whose area information is requested.
+     * @return an Area object that contains information how component is layed
+     *         in the grid
+     */
+    public Area getComponentArea(Component component) {
+        for (final Iterator iterator = areas.iterator(); iterator.hasNext();) {
+            final Area area = (Area) iterator.next();
+            if (area.getComponent() == component) {
+                return area;
+            }
+        }
+        return null;
+    }
+
 }