On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 16:18, Guenther Roith wrote: > The difference is, I think, that gtk+ postioins objects with (invisible) > boxes, relatively to the screen. > For example a button is in windows.forms at position 300, 100 > I gtk+ it has not a clearly defined postion, but rather a relative postition > in a box.
Gtk+ also has the GtkFixed widget which allows explicit positioning of widgets. Of course, fixed position layout sucks, but that's a moot point based on the vastness of the hordes that will be developing for SWF. People developing for mono will have the advantage of using the Gtk# API directly, with built-in portability to win32. But we should still be able to provide a "Form" widget with position based layout by packing a GtkFixed in a GtkWindow. Where it will get interesting is mapping anchoring onto Gtk, because it brings all the baggage of fixed positioning along for the ride with dynamic resizing. It will be a challenge to map SWF's layout mechanism onto Gtk, but I'm sure we (and Gtk) are up to the challenge. Mike _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
