[Glade-users] [SOLVED] Re: Button packing

Fri May 10 06:57:44 UTC 2013

On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 14:21 -0700, David Buchan wrote:
> ok, now I see what I was missing. You have "Horizontal Expand" set to
> "Yes" in the "Common" tab.

The "Common" tab is just a place where we put properties
which are shared by all GtkWidget classes.

I might remove the common tab one day, originally it was
just there to avoid crowding the property editor too much
(there are so so many properties :-/)

> I don't fully understand why that was necessary or exactly what it is
> doing though. I need to read up on what it means for parameters to be
> in the "Common" tab versus the "Packing" tab.
> 
> Regardless, thanks for solving this! Whew!
> I really appreciate all the time you put into supporting users.
> 
> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: Tristan Van Berkom <tristanvb at openismus.com>
> To: David Buchan <pdbuchan at yahoo.com> 
> Cc: "tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com" <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com>;
> Glade List <glade-users at lists.ximian.com> 
> Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 7:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [Glade-users] [SOLVED] Re: Button packing
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 03:48 -0700, David Buchan wrote:
> > I did try that, and it works for the left button, but the right
> button
> > then moves to the left to be beside the left button. The Pack Type
> > property in the Packing tab only has two possible values: "Start"
> and
> > "End." The default appears to be "Start", and this takes precedence,
> > overriding the Horizontal Alignment = "End" in the Common tab.
> > 
> > Because of that I had concluded that I must use the Pack Type
> > property. I'm not sure what to do then.
> 
> I'm a little perturbed, it seems that GtkBox has broken somehow,
> whereas
> this container is supposed to distributed expand space to all children
> if no children requested to expands, it would seem that this behavior
> has changed somehow over time.
> 
> Besides this being a sort of API break in GtkBox (I'm sure GTK+ 3.0
> did not behave like this), you should be able to easily work around
> it by setting both buttons to expand.
> 
> Attaching a sample.
> 
> Cheers,
>     -Tristan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Dave
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >
> ______________________________________________________________________
> > From: Tristan Van Berkom <tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com>
> > To: David Buchan <pdbuchan at yahoo.com> 
> > Cc: Glade List <glade-users at lists.ximian.com> 
> > Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 3:05 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Glade-users] [SOLVED] Re: Button packing
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM, David Buchan <pdbuchan at yahoo.com>
> > wrote:
> > > ok, I think I've got it.
> > >
> > > I used a non-homogeneous GtkBox (horizontal) with two fields. I
> put
> > a button
> > > in each field. Then I clicked on the first (left) button and in
> the
> > Packing
> > > field I set Pack Type to "Start." I clicked on the second (right)
> > button and
> > > in the Packing field I set Pack Type to "End." I used the defaults
> > for Fill
> > > and Expand for the buttons, which were "Yes" and "No",
> respectively.
> > 
> > Ok that's a bit weird, I don't recommend this method (it's kindof
> > a remaining API from GTK+-2, and also... using the pack type
> > will have some other implication, such as reversing your buttons
> > in RTL mode, which you probably dont really care about but
> > still, I wouldn't recommend using the "Pack Type" property here).
> > 
> > I would recommend to just use the "Horizontal Alignment"
> > property (found in the "Common" tab).
> > 
> > Set your first button to have "Horizontal Alignment" "Start"
> > and the other button to have "End".
> > 
> > Cheers,
> >        -Tristan
> > 
> > 
> > >
> > > That's pretty neat and tidy.  Glade is great.
> > >
> > > Dave
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: David Buchan <pdbuchan at yahoo.com>
> > > To: Glade List <glade-users at lists.ximian.com>
> > > Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 4:13 PM
> > > Subject: [Glade-users] Button packing
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I would like to place two buttons in my window. I want one button
> to
> > be at
> > > the left side of the window, and the other at the right side of
> the
> > window.
> > >
> > > I tried putting a GtkBox (horizontal) with 5 columns. I chose 5 so
> > that I'd
> > > get the width of buttons I want. Then I put one button in position
> > 0, and
> > > the other at position 4.
> > >
> > > What I find is that when the window is rendered, it expands the
> > buttons so
> > > that each one takes half the window width, filling the entire row.
> > >
> > > I tried the same thing with a GtkGrid with 1 row, but had the same
> > result.
> > > I've fooled around with every Expand/Fill combination I could
> think
> > of, but
> > > it didn't help.
> > >
> > > The solution was to put blank labels in the 3 inner positions.
> This
> > worked
> > > whether I used a GtkBox or GtkGrid. But I can't help feeling like
> I
> > > shouldn't need to put empty labels to make this work.
> > >
> > > Ideas?
> > >
> > > Dave
> > >
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