Ian Ward <ian <at> excess.org> writes:
>
> In 0.9.9 after adding the more user-friendly parameters left and right
> to the Padding constructor, I also quietly gave the align and width
> parameters default values of 'left' and 'pack'.
>
> The latter has now caused problems for a number of people. A really
> common request is to just want to indent something by a few characters,
> but to do that safely you need to do something like:
>
> urwid.Padding(my_thing, width=('relative', 100), left=4)
>
> My preference is to change the width default to ('relative', 100) for
> the next Urwid release, and add a warning for people using Padding
> without specifying a width in the next bugfix release 1.0.2.
>
> The 'pack' option only really works for Text widgets, and only makes a
> difference to the appearance (as compared to ('relative', 100) when the
> text alignment is different than than the padding alignment). So I
> believe the potential for breaking existing programs is low.
>
> If this change will cause problems for you please speak up, maybe there
> is some other option that won't break otherwise working code built for
> 0.9.9/1.0
>
> Ian
>
This change would be great.
I just moved from 0.9.8 to 1.0.1 and my indented input box worked horribly
(e.g.
first character not shown unless I scroll left).
I was going to ask about it here, and saw this, which solves the problem
perfectly.
I think it should definitely be the default. If I use urwid.Padding(my_thing,
left=4), I want my_thing to behave just as if it wasn't padded, except that its
width is 4 chars less.
Thanks.
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