[Glade-users] Horizontal and Vertical box

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Thus spake Prashant Kumar on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 03:36:51PM CDT
> Thanks everyone. I understand it now.
> 
> Is it easy to embed apps into the window? Say a movie player in a box?
> Or a flash movie?.

Well, not exactly.  My reference to HTML tables was more in reference to the
way that the 2D space of the app UI is dividied and allocated to the widgets
it contains so that their positions relative to one another are what you
want.  Putting something such as a movie player into an app UI is something
else altogether.  If you haven't ever worked with HTML tables, my comment
probably didn't make sense to you. 

> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 20:02, fmouse-glade@fmp.com wrote:
> > Designing a UI with glade requires some experimentation with containers, and
> > with the borders and padding of widgets contained within them.  Containers
> > are subdivided equally at first, but aren't locked into equal division, and
> > will resize relative to each other as the properties of the widgets inside
> > them are changed.  You'll also find that the UI of the running program may
> > not look quite the same as the mock-up in glade.
> > 
> > IMHO, designing a UI in glade has more in common with designing a web page
> > using tables than it does with the dragon-drop UI design tools for other
> > operating systems.  It's not immediately intuitive, but once you get the
> > hang of it, you can make it do pretty much what you want.
> > 
> > Thus spake prashk.staff.btltd.net on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:39:45AM CDT
> > > Hi Peeps,
> > > 
> > > I'm a newbie with Glade and having a nightmare trying to figure out a way
> > > of desining the interface. I've read a few tutorials and know that it
> > > works on containers. When I add a vertical or a horizontal container(and
> > > specify 3), it divides it into 3 EQUAL parts and does not let me resize
> > > it. How do I get it to resize?
> > > 
> > > If I use panes then when I resize the panes look horribly wrong and lose
> > > their original look.
> > > 
> > > Pls help.
> > > 
> > > Thanks
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