[Glade-users] [SOLVED] Re: Button packing

[tristan.van.berkom at gmail.com (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:44 AM, David Buchan <pdbuchan at yahoo.com> 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 <pdbuchan at yahoo.com>
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> 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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