On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 04:42:44PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote: > On 2020-05-15 15:23, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 02:51:10PM -0700, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users > > wrote: > > > On 2020-05-13 14:05, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > So... I believe Timo gave you that as an example how to use a grid to > > > > position the various controls (buttons, text labels, input fields). > > > > You start there, you figure out what text labels, what input fields, > > > > what buttons you need, and then you use the 03-grid.p6 example as a base > > > > on how to do this with Raku and GTK+. > > > > > > Actually, he showed me the end result, not how he did it. > > > I really need to know how he did it > > > > Um, what he showed you was not in any way related to GTK+; it was > > an example of using grid layout in Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), > > a widely-used extension to HTML for making webpages. His point was > > to illustrate the *idea* of aligning buttons, text labels, and text > > input boxes to a grid. > > > > So you posted a screenshot of running the 03-grid.p6 example. > > It showed a couple of buttons and a text label, and it aligned them in > > the way described in the source code. Play around with it a bit, move > > the buttons and the text labels around, create another element or two, > > look at the other examples, maybe the one that says "Hello World", maybe > > the one that is called "text", see what other types of GTK+ things you > > can put onto the grid. > > With the exception that I do not know how to get the > data back out of the pop up. The example does not even > have a `okay` and `cancel` button
...so, as I said, you look at the other examples. This one is merely an example of aligning things, not of making things do something. That's what the other examples (like the ones that, I don't know, maybe the ones that I mentioned?). G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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