[Glade-users] Horizontal and Vertical box

[prashk staff btltd net (Prashant Kumar)]

Thanks everyone. I understand it now.

Is it easy to embed apps into the window? Say a movie player in a box?
Or a flash movie?.

Ta
Prash


On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 20:02, fmouse-glade fmp com wrote:
> Designing a UI with glade requires some experimentation with containers, and
> with the borders and padding of widgets contained within them.  Containers
> are subdivided equally at first, but aren't locked into equal division, and
> will resize relative to each other as the properties of the widgets inside
> them are changed.  You'll also find that the UI of the running program may
> not look quite the same as the mock-up in glade.
>
> IMHO, designing a UI in glade has more in common with designing a web page
> using tables than it does with the dragon-drop UI design tools for other
> operating systems.  It's not immediately intuitive, but once you get the
> hang of it, you can make it do pretty much what you want.
>
> Thus spake prashk.staff.btltd.net on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 08:39:45AM CDT
> > Hi Peeps,
> >
> > I'm a newbie with Glade and having a nightmare trying to figure out a way
> > of desining the interface. I've read a few tutorials and know that it
> > works on containers. When I add a vertical or a horizontal container(and
> > specify 3), it divides it into 3 EQUAL parts and does not let me resize
> > it. How do I get it to resize?
> >
> > If I use panes then when I resize the panes look horribly wrong and lose
> > their original look.
> >
> > Pls help.
> >
> > Thanks
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