Re: Child Packing

Check out Glade. It will make your life a lot easier when you need to add new stuff. -Jeremy On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:30:41 -0800 (PST), Richard Lynch <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: > > $cd_type_main_box = &new GtkVBox(false, 0); > > $cd_type_main_box->set_usize(100,-1); > > $hb = &new gtkhbox(0,0); > > $hb->pack_start($cd_type_main_box,0,0,10); > > $cd_type_window->add($hb); > > So what do you do when... > > On Screen B, so far, all you have is the "Back" button. > > Later, you'll add more stuff, but you're not sure what it is right now, > much less exactly where it will fit. > > But the Back button belongs in the bottom-left corner. > > So you use an HBox and pack_start and a VBox and pack_end and tweak the > expand/fill settings to get the damn thing in the bottom-left corner where > it belongs. > > But you know, without a doubt, that you'll have to rip that out and change > it and it will mess up the layout as soon as you want to add anything else > in. > > I've got to be doing something fundamentally wrong here... > > I guess I'm hoping somebody can point me to a function/object/method that > means: > "Keep this button 10, -50 from the bottom left corner of the window, no > matter what size the window is, and no matter what else is added to it." > > -- > Like Music? > http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm > > -- > PHP-GTK General Mailing List (http://gtk.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- --------------------------- Jeremy Johnstone http://www.jeremyjohnstone.com jsjohnst@php.net