In case it helps, there is a howto... http://www.fltk.org/articles.php?L415
Might help. If not, well, ask again...! On 6 Nov 2012, at 15:03, Patrick wrote: > Hi Everyone > > Callbacks and creating instances of widgets is really straightforward in > FLTK but I am finding the layout management quite confusing. > > I have some gtk, tk and some html/css background. > > With css there is absolute positioning and relative positioning(and > others likely). It's my understanding that with css it's a bad design > practice to set everything by absolute position. With gtk there is hbox > and vbox(from what I remember) that will position widgets within the > container implicitly based on whether it is a vertical box or horizontal > one. > > I am playing with Fl_Group right now. I thought that widgets inside > groups might behave similar to css relative position but it appears it > is still absolute. > > Is there a list of best design practices with fltk ? Is it best to think > it terms of absolute positioning for everything ? If this is the case, > is Fl_Group more of a declared region on the screen as opposed to a > container that can move widgets around like a div would be in html ? > > Thanks for reading-Patrick _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk

