Re: Child Packing

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 13:30:41 -0800 (PST) "Richard Lynch" <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote: > 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." It doesn't quite work that way. I'm not sure if I can express it right, but I'll try. You work with rectangles, and you can tell a rectangle to be as big as possible, as small as possible (depending on the widget inside) or to take up a certain percentage of the available space. In other words, you shrink or enlarge rectangles within the container. Besides this, you also have a vertical and a horizontal order that the widgets will follow, depending on how you set them up. You also have empty borders you can set around the widgets, and then you have certain types of containers which will help you lay things out. If you know any HTML, this resembles HTML tables. You can't just place things wherever you want like in a DTP application, you have these rectangles or cells which depend on each other and you must juggle with them respecting the rules. -- Ciprian Popovici