Is this not anything like what you're after?
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F2016%2FCR-css-grid-1-20160929%2Fimages%2Fauto-placed-form.png&f=1&nofb=1
Kind Regards
- Timo
On 12/05/2020 20:44, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
> > On 12/05/2020 00:47, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I want to create a fill in form in Windows: city,
> >> state, etc., you fill in the data.
> >>
> >> Is there some library out there for that?
> >>
> >> Any words of wisdom?
> >>
> >> Many thanks,
> >> -T
>
>
> On 2020-05-12 08:18, Timo Paulssen wrote:
>> Hi Todd,
>>
>> normally I'd expect you want to create a grid with labels on the left
>> and text inputs on the right.
>>
>> the examples/ folder in the GTK::Simple distribution (or the source on
>> github) has an example of the Grid class, which is very powerful.
>>
>> The grid is possibly more complicated than you need it to be; instead
>> you can probably have one VBox that contains one HBox for every label +
>> input field.
>>
>> One benefit that the Grid will give you is that you can much more easily
>> line up all the fill-in text inputs, whereas with a VBox of HBoxes it
>> may just make every text input as wide as possible so it (almost)
>> touches the end of the label, so different words ("city" vs "first
>> name") could result in different-sized text inputs.
>>
>> hope that helps
>> - Timo
>>
>
>
> Hi Timo,
>
> You mean this one?
>
> https://github.com/raku-community-modules/gtk-simple/blob/master/examples/03-grid.pl6
>
>
> https://ibb.co/hgKHgW4
>
> I do not see the utility of what I am after.
>
> :'(
>
> -T
