Re: a step towards solving align

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]> Sun, 04 Apr 2004 20:27:45 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.xwt.core
Organization XWT Foundation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 04:15 -0700, Adam Megacz wrote:
> Well, er, like I said, there was that confusing case about conflicting
> aliginments.  I never got a serious answer on why the description we
> had would specify the behavior that "made sense".

Columns sizes are (and should be) unaffected by alignment.  Period.  If
it were not like that, it would be unintuitive; too many factors
affecting box layout.  Alignment should only affect a box's position
within free space around the box.

This way you only need to take boxes sizes into account when sizing
columns, which is not just simple for the core but simple for the Ibex
application developer to visualise (which is very important).
-- 
- Charlie

Charles Goodwin <[email protected]>
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