B4J Question Getting width of a pane returns 0

[crt]

Hi, I'm trying to write a calendar app with B4J and I'm trying to print labels onto a pane, to do it I need to get the width and height of the pane in the designer, I'm simply using Dim Variable as double = pnlJan.Width, etc. In the designer the width of the pane is 108 pixels but when I run the program, when I try to get the width of the pane it just returns 0.0. I have the panes Dim statement in Process_Globals "Dim pnlJan as Pane", and no errors are being thrown. It seems like a simple operation, what am I missing?

 

[stevel05]

You should use PrefWidth as opposed to Width, and if you are running it from appstart, to make sure that the layout is fully loaded, call a sub with callsubdelayed to do your processing.

 

[crt]

You should use PrefWidth as opposed to Width, and if you are running it from appstart, to make sure that the layout is fully loaded, call a sub with callsubdelayed to do your processing.

PrefWidth did the trick, thanks so much