Re: How to create a grid

The best solution is to add gridbag support to the core.  Yes, i know,
I need to do this.  TTF fonts come first.

  - a

Brian Alliet <[email protected]> writes:
> On Wednesday, July 30, 2003, at 11:24  AM, Charles Goodwin wrote:
> >> It will use a nice, xwt box structure, being defined:
> >>
> >> <grid>
> >>   <row>
> >>     <col />
> >>     <col />
> >>   </row>
> [snip]
> > Actually, thinking about it, it is more logical to use:
> >
> > <grid>
> >    <col>
> >       <row>
> >    </col>
> > </grid>
> 
> Oh no, the great table debate all over again. IIRC this went on for 
> months the last time this was brought up. I think the consensus was 
> that it was easier on the engine to break it up by cols, then rows, but 
> easier on the user (and most consistent with that the user expects) to 
> break it up by rows, cols. Adam pointed out that the old mail demo used 
> the rows, cols technique and it could smoothly resize tables with 
> hundreds of rows.
> 
> -Brian
> 
> 
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