Just curious. Are you using any IupHBox or IupVBox containers in your
design?
On Sun, 2017-01-08 at 10:16 -0700, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is just feedback of user satisfaction. It is not a complaint,
> it is just an opinion and requires no response. I'm hoping someone
> will understand what I am saying here and will think of a way to
> improve the container functionality to bring it up to a more state-
> of-the-art level.
>
> With the following parameters:
>
> MARGIN=5x5
> GAPCOL=5
> GAPLIN=5
>
> I get the following rendering:
>
>
> Note how GAPLIN has no effect. That's because IUP needs to be told
> which component in the entire grid is the the tallest component in
> the entire grid, so with that in mind, I used the following
> parameters,
>
> SIZELIN=1
> SIZECOL=2
> MARGIN=5x5
> GAPCOL=5
> GAPLIN=5
>
> and I get the following rendering:
>
>
> So now GAPLIN is working, but I have a problem with the GAPCOL
> ignoring the QUIT button's width because IUP hasn't been told that
> the QUIT button is the widest button in that column, but I
> cannot convey that information to IUP without screwing up the rest of
> the layout, since columns zero and one of line 2 are zero width and
> zero height:
>
>
>
> To get this to work, I tried inserting the GridBox inside of a Vbox
> or Hbox, but they too have no effect on the QUIT button margin. I
> could make this work by overriding the fault main window width by
> using USERSIZE, but why have containers if I typically will have to
> override them like this?
>
> That was only for a simplified user interface. Just spelling out the
> labels and flipping SRC with DST, I get this rendering,
>
>
>
> which is awful and not very fixable.
>
> Therefore the problem is this: I cannot choose a container that will
> let me align components both vertically and horizontally. It is
> either one or the other, but not both. GridBox comes close but it
> isn't very powerful, as you can see. There is no point in having any
> of these containers, if they can only do very simple "Hello World"
> interfaces and nothing beyond that, without having to compile a
> confusing slew of Vboxes, Hboxes, and GridBoxes into your user
> interface. As much as I hate JAVA, their version of the GridBox was
> very useful. As it stands, I need to resort to the cumbersome CX and
> CY attributes of each component to make anything more complicated
> than a "Hellow World" user interface work.
>
> What is really great about GridBox is that you only need to pass one
> parameter to the function to load your entire interface.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andrew
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