Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
Mark Morgan Lloyd schrieb:
If you don't want to calculate the exact amount, you can dimension
the form sufficiently big, and adjust the columns to fill the form.
That's doable for the width, but what about rows where I believe
there's less scope for per-row tweaking?
Depends on whether the number of rows is fixed, or only known at
runtime. I'd adjust for a minimal number of rows, so that the form will
not "jump" too much in height, with every occurence.
As long as there exist only rows of a single line, it should not be so
hard to calculate the minimum height of each row, depending on the
choosen font. Then bitmaps, of a constant height, will be another factor
to consider. Finally there is a choice of adjusting the row height, so
that the rows fill the grid, or to shrink the grid to the total rows
height.
Assuming the number of rows is known, I'm already doing that and finding
that I have to adjust by different amounts depending on the widget set:
I think that the issue is the amount of overhead between a form's size
and the size of its client space. It would be nice to have a facility to
specify a precise client size and have the container (i.e. form etc.)
adjust to that, in other words the exact opposite of the standard situation.
However, I thought yesterday that I was seeing different behavior on
different machines (possibly based on the gtk2 library version, or on
DPI) but that was a red herring- lazbuild wasn't rebuilding a unit when
the target changed. So fortunately I've got nothing intractable here.
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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk
[Opinions above are the author's, not those of his employers or colleagues]
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