improve auto dimensions

example/layout/about.lua

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 return { style = 'dialog',
     { style = 'dialogHead', text = 'About LUIGI' },
-    { style = 'dialogBody', align = 'left middle', padding = 24, icon = 'logo.png', text = [[
+    { style = 'dialogBody', padding = 24, icon = 'logo.png', text = [[
 Lovely User Interfaces for Game Inventors
 
 Copyright (c) 2015 airstruck

example/style.lua

@@ -36,24 +36,25 @@ return {
         height = 400,
     },
     dialogHead = {
-        type = 'panel',
-        height = 40,
-        size = 16,
         align = 'middle center',
+        height = 22,
+        size = 16,
+        type = 'panel',
     },
     dialogBody = {
-        wrap = true,
+        align = 'left middle',
-        padding = 4,
         font = 'font/DejaVuSansMono.ttf',
+        padding = 4,
+        wrap = true,
     },
     dialogFoot = {
-        type = 'panel',
         flow = 'x',
-        height = 40,
+        height = 'auto',
+        type = 'panel',
+        padding = 4,
     },
     dialogButton = {
         type = 'button',
         width = 100,
-        margin = 4,
     }
 }

luigi/attribute.lua

@@ -298,7 +298,14 @@ Minimum width.
 Attribute.minwidth = {}
 
 function Attribute.minwidth.set (widget, value)
-    widget.attributes.minwidth = value
+    local attributes = widget.attributes
+    attributes.minwidth = value
+    if type(value) == 'number' then
+        local current = attributes.width
+        if type(current) == 'number' then
+            attributes.width = math.max(current, value)
+        end
+    end
     widget.reshape(widget.parent or widget)
 end
 
@@ -310,7 +317,14 @@ Minimum height.
 Attribute.minheight = {}
 
 function Attribute.minheight.set (widget, value)
-    widget.attributes.minheight = value
+    local attributes = widget.attributes
+    attributes.minheight = value
+    if type(value) == 'number' then
+        local current = attributes.height
+        if type(current) == 'number' then
+            attributes.height = math.max(current, value)
+        end
+    end
     widget.reshape(widget.parent or widget)
 end
 

luigi/theme/light.lua

@@ -98,7 +98,8 @@ return function (config)
             type = 'control',
             background = backColor,
             padding = 4,
-            align = 'left middle',
+            align = 'left bottom',
+            height = 14,
         },
         menu = {
             height = 24,

luigi/widget.lua

@@ -347,7 +347,9 @@ function Widget:calculateDimension (name)
                 end
                 claimed = claimed + widget.dimensions[name]
             elseif value then
-                claimed = claimed + value
+                local min = (name == 'width') and (widget.minwidth or 0)
+                    or (widget.minheight or 0)
+                claimed = claimed + math.max(value, min)
             else
                 unsized = unsized + 1
             end
@@ -416,9 +418,15 @@ function Widget:calculatePosition (axis)
 end
 
 function Widget:calculateDimensionMinimum (name)
-    local space = (self.margin or 0) * 2 + (self.padding or 0) * 2
+    local dim = self[name]
-    local min = name == 'width' and 'minwidth' or 'minheight'
+    local min = (name == 'width') and (self.minwidth or 0)
-    local value = space
+        or (self.minheight or 0)
+
+    if type(dim) == 'number' then
+        return math.max(dim, min)
+    end
+
+    local value = 0
 
     for _, child in ipairs(self) do
         if (name == 'width' and self.flow == 'x')
@@ -428,9 +436,13 @@ function Widget:calculateDimensionMinimum (name)
             value = math.max(value, child:calculateDimensionMinimum(name))
         end
     end
-    local dim = self[name]
+
-    dim = type(dim) == 'number' and dim
+    if value > 0 then
-    return math.max(value, dim or 0, self[min] or 0)
+        local space = (self.margin or 0) * 2 + (self.padding or 0) * 2
+        value = value + space
+    end
+
+    return math.max(value, min)
 end
 
 --[[--