Re: spanned table cell expansion

[Christopher Anderson <sidewinder asu gmail com>]

Could you post a bit of code so we can get a better idea of what's going on? 

Chris

On 6/17/05, Karl H. Beckers <karl h beckers gmx net> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm having this effect where my table cells aren't expanding as I expect
> them to. If somebody could shed some light here (perhaps provide a
> workaround) that would be most welcome.
> 
> I have reduced this to the max. Let's say we have this table with 3
> columns and 2 rows where in each row there is a widget spanning two
> columns, like this:
> 
>  .....................................................................
> 
>  | +------------------+ | +--------------------+-------------------+ |
> 
>  | | checkbutton      | | | entry              |                   | |
> 
>  | +------------------+ | +--------------------+-------------------+ |
> 
>  | +--------------------+--------------------+ | +-----------------+ |
> 
>  | | hscale             |                    | | | checkbutton     | |
> 
>  | +--------------------+--------------------+ | +-----------------+ |
> 
>  '`'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
> 
> I've set both checkbuttons to not horizontally expand the surrounding
> container and the entry and hscale to do so. This (so I expected) should
> make the middle column take care of any extra space needed without the
> outer columns ever changing width.
> 
> However, this is not at all what's happening. It looks like the space
> added to e.g. the hscale is divided evenly between the spanned columns
> (rather than implementing a more complex algo for finding out if a given
> widget is perhaps the only expaning widget on a spanned column while
> other spanned columns may have other expanding widgets, or smth. the
> like), and thus also added to the first one.
> 
> Any ideas, pointers?
> 
> TIA,
> 
> Karl.
> 
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