Re: [SOLVED] Re: Button packing

I did try that, and it works for the left button, but the right button then moves to the left to be beside the left button. The Pack Type property in the Packing tab only has two possible values: "Start" and "End." The default appears to be "Start", and this takes precedence, overriding the Horizontal Alignment = "End" in the Common tab.

Because of that I had concluded that I must use the Pack Type property. I'm not sure what to do then.

Dave




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 From: Tristan Van Berkom <[email protected]>
To: David Buchan <[email protected]> 
Cc: Glade List <[email protected]> 
Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2013 3:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Glade-users] [SOLVED] Re: Button packing
 

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM, David Buchan <[email protected]> wrote:
> ok, I think I've got it.
>
> I used a non-homogeneous GtkBox (horizontal) with two fields. I put a button
> in each field. Then I clicked on the first (left) button and in the Packing
> field I set Pack Type to "Start." I clicked on the second (right) button and
> in the Packing field I set Pack Type to "End." I used the defaults for Fill
> and Expand for the buttons, which were "Yes" and "No", respectively.

Ok that's a bit weird, I don't recommend this method (it's kindof
a remaining API from GTK+-2, and also... using the pack type
will have some other implication, such as reversing your buttons
in RTL mode, which you probably dont really care about but
still, I wouldn't recommend using the "Pack Type" property here).

I would recommend to just use the "Horizontal Alignment"
property (found in the "Common" tab).

Set your first button to have "Horizontal Alignment" "Start"
and the other button to have "End".

Cheers,
        -Tristan


>
> That's pretty neat and tidy.  Glade is great.
>
> Dave
> ________________________________
> From: David Buchan <[email protected]>
> To: Glade List <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2013 4:13 PM
> Subject: [Glade-users] Button packing
>
> Hi,
>
> I would like to place two buttons in my window. I want one button to be at
> the left side of the window, and the other at the right side of the window.
>
> I tried putting a GtkBox (horizontal) with 5 columns. I chose 5 so that I'd
> get the width of buttons I want. Then I put one button in position 0, and
> the other at position 4.
>
> What I find is that when the window is rendered, it expands the buttons so
> that each one takes half the window width, filling the entire row.
>
> I tried the same thing with a GtkGrid with 1 row, but had the same result.
> I've fooled around with every Expand/Fill combination I could think of, but
> it didn't help.
>
> The solution was to put blank labels in the 3 inner positions. This worked
> whether I used a GtkBox or GtkGrid. But I can't help feeling like I
> shouldn't need to put empty labels to make this work.
>
> Ideas?
>
> Dave
>
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