While I can see what you are saying about having to specify the width/height of a label, its not true if you use TableLayout ina different way. For instance, if you are using a Label to display free flowing text that you want to wrap properly and behave more like a traditional web page, you can set the ‘wrapText’ property on Label to get it to wrap as the size of the label changes (you can also embed some html). Then you just place the Label into a TableLayout cell that has a column set to a relative width/height:

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Frame f = Application.current().getFrame();
//Setup two columns, one at 50% and then one remainder.
//Also add one row that takes up the whole height of the container
f.setLayout(new TableLayout(new double[][]{{.5,0},{0}}));

Label l = new Label(getReallyLongText());
l.setWrapText(true);

//Add label to frame, placing it in column 0, row 0.
//NOTE: No width/height specified.
f.getChildren().add(l.setLimit(“0,0″));
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If you need more HTMLish capability for static text areas, you can replace the Label with a WebBrowser component and set the border size of the WebBrowser to 0, so it behaves mostly like a Label. Then just call setContent to set the content:

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WebBrowser l = new WebBrowser();
l.getStyle().getBorder().setSize(0);
l.setContent(“…complex html… “);
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In one way or another, you have to address layout in any application you create, ThinWire just approaches things differently. For lots of well formated read-only content, its a little tricky, so just use a WebBrowser component for those parts. However, for data entry forms and business UI’s, I think this approach works pretty well and gives you exact control over how the user interface is presented. This is not to say that we won’t do something more automatic in the future that is built on top of this, but we’ve been mainly focused on getting the foundation solid and working perfectly. Keep an eye on us!