Graeme Geldenhuys escreveu:
Henry Vermaak wrote:
Maybe you can
also explain to me what good hard-coded bounds are, given that you
will never be able to get it right to suit everyone's language, theme
or font size.
And how bad does it look when a component paints outside it's bounds. Quick
answer - Terrible! Considering that I have not seen a single other GUI
toolkit allow that, it IS simply a bug in GTK2.
It's necessary to have in mind that Gtk is not supposed to be used as is
used by LCL (with fixed bounds and position).
The default Gtk behavior is to resize and position the controls
according to font size etc, so this problem will never occurs when used
as is proposed. This explains why LCL programs have such issues while
pure Gtk2 apps not.
Another point is that LCL uses the default Gtk controls, that are built
with the above design in mind, while Gtk allows to change the widgets
behavior by subclassing (inheritance). In other words the full potential
of Gtk as a toolkit is not used.
The problem is the inheritance model (GObject) is not as straight as C++
or pascal.
Anyway, i have in mind somethings to fix in Gtk2.
Luiz
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