On 5/16/13 3:12 PM, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 02:55:51PM +0200, Jürgen Schmidt wrote:
>> no problem, nice to solve problems so easy ;-) It sees that
>> others have layout problems as well, not only OpenOffice where
>> layouting of controls in the UI for example is a nightmare and
>> handcrafted :-(
> 
> There is some basic support in
> 
> vcl/inc/vcl/arrange.hxx vcl/source/window/arrange.cxx
> 
> OpenGrok for RowOrColumn and you'll see it's even used in some
> dialogs, prominently in the resizable Print dialog

ok I never have used this directly. I did UI mainly via the toolkit.

> http://opengrok.adfinis-sygroup.org/source/search?q=RowOrColumn&defs=&refs=&path=main&hist=&project=aoo-trunk
>
> 
(I used it to make the Readme dialog resizable without having to
> re-layout the controls - I like wasting my free time in this "most 
> unimportant dialog", vcl is fun :) ).

maybe you are interested to work on a more generic layout engine for
VCL. Thinking of an extended or modified format to describe dialogs
and include layout info/constraints that are used by the layout engine
etc.

This would be a very useful thing of course.

Juergen

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