Re: gtk Paned, altered...

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

You should be able to get the two handle boxes working together by
connecting signals to the button_press_event, button_release_event and
motion_notify_event, and calling gtk_signal_emit_by_name on the other
paned widget, using a modified GdkEvent with the GdkWindow set to the
handle of that other pane.  It isn't pretty, but it should work.  It
doesn't give the behaviour for dragging the intersection of the handles
though.

Another place to look for comments on your code is gtk-devel-list.

James Henstridge.

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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999 Suboner@aol.com wrote:

> > You can get triple/quad by simply nesting GtkPaned, I think. That's
> > probably a nicer way to do it since it scales up beyond quad.
> 
> That works fine for tripple (with the exection of a center handle), but for
> quad you can't have a center, and you have 2 independent gutters, some people
> like it when you can move all panes by clicking and dragging the center,
> dragging both horizontal gutters when clicking the horizontal gutter on the
> top or bottom, and being able to drag both sides of the vertical gutter when
> clicking on the left or the right sides. Its hard to explain, hope you
> understand. The other benefit I wanted to add, is dynamic, so that a
> programmer can give the ability to a program to be able to have options for
> their user interface, an example is that a program starts off as a single
> section, and then the user can switch from that to a double section and switch
> the orientation from horizontal to verticle, and then from there be able to
> change to a quad or tripple with diffrent orientations.
> 
> > If you're going to have > 2 panes I'd say allow an arbitrary number of
> > panes. 4 is sort of a random limit. .02, FWIW.
> 
> I'm not exactly sure what you mean, I'll try to explain it more, 1 is the
> minimum (in case a program starts off with one) but 4 is a maximum, its not
> realy that random, the maximum cells is going to be 2x2, so that is 4 widgets
> all together, so for example a user wants to single out a single widget so
> that the widget takes up the entire view, he could choose which widget to
> single out, out of 4 widgets in a quad view for example. This is completely
> relevant to the project I'm getting ready for. This widget will just be
> general purpose and be able to handle single sectioned, double sectioned,
> triple sectioned, and quad sectioned, and do this in one widget, as opposed to
> using 2 or 3 paned widgets, so it will have more programmer options, giving
> programmers a better programming interface, allowing them to create nicer user
> interfaces.
> 
> BTW everyone, I used gxTar to create it, it should open and decompress using
> gxTar, but I don't know if I appropriately named it with the extension
> .tar.gz, that is the file formats I wanted gxTar to save to but I don't know
> if it saved it to that (I need to learn how to use gxTar better :)).
> 
> 
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