[MonoDevelop] Comments on Stetic GU designer

[Richard Hendershot]

On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 16:21 -0300, Rafael Teixeira wrote:

> the window widget HAS a default layout: a single auto-adjustable slot
> for some other widget (normally a container), because that is the only
> one able to work for nay kind of window. 

Ahh, I see your point.   It's just that the default acts differently
from what I'm used to.  


> So I think, one need to adjust a bit the mental process behind form
> designing when starting with GTK#,

You're right, of course.  One of the problems I'm having is knowing
which container will do what I need.  I guess it will just take a little
longer.

Again, I'm very glad to see Stetic added to Monodevelop so please don't
take as complaints.


>  to think the overall layout first, and know the available containers
> needed to achieve that. To me it's just second nature now to add a
> vbox as my first (root) container in any GTK# form, with an hbox
> inside in the last (bottommost) cell to be able to put the nearly
> always needed buttons. 


Cool!   A mini-tutorial  ;)

> That works for 99% of the dialogs and simple windows I need to design,
> taking me no more than 30s to have it already with two or three
> buttons, and it would take even less if I didn't have to adjust sizing
> priorities/padding on some cells, to make it more like standard
> dialogs. 
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