Re: Child Packing

Ciprian Popovici wrote: > On Sat, 8 Jan 2005 21:39:16 +0800 "firepages.com.au" > <fire@firepages.com.au> wrote: >> You could aways just use GtkFixed or similar & then set_usize on the >> contents , its a bit like CSS with absolute positioning. > > I guess the point I was trying to make was that you should avoid absolute > positioning in general. It's better to let widgets to adjust to various > window and font sizes. I've grown tired of applications which completely > disregard the possibility of the user having small DPI (large fonts) and > which result in out of bonds text and widgets. I'm writing an application for a digital jukebox for the coffeehouse where i work. So long as it works on this ONE machine, I don't really care about any other machine. This code will probably never be run on any other machine. I'll try to get used to the GTK way, just in case somebody else wants the code some day, but... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm