Ed Leafe wrote:
So, you are only recommending a grid bag sizer for situations where
you need to align a label with one or more controls in the same row?
(This is what I meant below by a single-row grid sizer).
Does this mean that only very simple grid sizers are really needed:
single rows with a small number of columns.
For everything else you just compose a design from combinations of
box sizers and single row grid sizers.
Single-row grid sizers? I guess I don't see the point of something
like that.
See above comment.
But yeah, except for situations where things are in an obvious grid
pattern, I think that the box sizers are the way to go.
I was thinking that a single grid sizer could be used for just about
any application by suitable adjustment of spanning, expand and
proportion properties. It might be hairy but at least there would
only be one sizer to manage. I guess not.
I suppose you could work that way, but I would get as confused as
hell with anything that worked like that!
Thanks for this, it has not been obvious to me what strategy to take
when choosing sizers.
While I can see that you can design just about anything using multiple
nested box sizers it seemed to me that this would get prety complicated
quickly. It seems that the alternative (a single complex grid sizer) is
worse.
Sigh.
I liked the idea of the single grid sizer because because it seems to
fit my mental model of sizers as a template rather than sizers as a
multiple stacks of pyramid blocks. Ah well.
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