Hi,
Can you send me the code for that example. I may have an idea.
Best,
Scuri
On Sun, Jan 8, 2017 at 3:16 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is just feedback of user satisfaction. It is not a complaint, it is
> just an opinion and requires no response. I'm hoping someone will
> understand what I am saying here and will think of a way to improve the
> container functionality to bring it up to a more state-of-the-art level.
>
> With the following parameters:
>
> MARGIN=5x5
> GAPCOL=5
> GAPLIN=5
>
> I get the following rendering:
>
> Note how GAPLIN has no effect. That's because IUP needs to be told which
> component in the entire grid is the the tallest component in the entire
> grid, so with that in mind, I used the following parameters,
>
> SIZELIN=1
> SIZECOL=2
> MARGIN=5x5
> GAPCOL=5
> GAPLIN=5
>
> and I get the following rendering:
>
> So now GAPLIN is working, but I have a problem with the GAPCOL ignoring
> the QUIT button's width because IUP hasn't been told that the QUIT button
> is the widest button in that column, but I cannot convey that information
> to IUP without screwing up the rest of the layout, since columns zero and
> one of line 2 are zero width and zero height:
>
>
> To get this to work, I tried inserting the GridBox inside of a Vbox or
> Hbox, but they too have no effect on the QUIT button margin. I could make
> this work by overriding the fault main window width by using USERSIZE, but
> why have containers if I typically will have to override them like this?
>
> That was only for a simplified user interface. Just spelling out the
> labels and flipping SRC with DST, I get this rendering,
>
>
> which is awful and not very fixable.
>
> Therefore the problem is this: I cannot choose a container that will let
> me align components both vertically and horizontally. It is either one or
> the other, but not both. GridBox comes close but it isn't very powerful, as
> you can see. There is no point in having any of these containers, if they
> can only do very simple "Hello World" interfaces and nothing beyond that,
> without having to compile a confusing slew of Vboxes, Hboxes, and GridBoxes
> into your user interface. As much as I hate JAVA, their version of the
> GridBox was very useful. As it stands, I need to resort to the cumbersome
> CX and CY attributes of each component to make anything more complicated
> than a "Hellow World" user interface work.
>
> What is really great about GridBox is that you only need to pass one
> parameter to the function to load your entire interface.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Andrew
>
>
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