Re: clarification on GtkAlignment

[Mark Ivey <zovirl1_list sbcglobal net>]

Wow, that's unfortunate.  I didn't really want to just pad it...that
almost goes back to the bad days of absolute positioning.

Anyone have any idea why the alignments aren't more "exact" with their
scales?  Is this intended?

-Mark Ivey-

On Tue, 2004-09-28 at 09:58, Stefan Kost wrote:
> In the GNOME HIG they really suggest to use a label containg spaces for padding
> (I don't like that as well).
> That means you should put each button in a hbox(2) and put the padding label
> into the first slot of the hbox and your button into the second one.
> :-(
>
> Stefan
>
> Mark Ivey wrote:
> > I don't understand something about alignments, hopefully someone can
> > help me out.  My window contains a 4-row vbox filled with alignments. 
> > Each alignment has the same settings:
> >     x align: 1.0
> >     y align: 0.0
> >     x scale: 0.5
> >     y scale: 1.0
> > Each alignment also contains a 1 button.  The buttons have different
> > labels, like this:
> >     a
> >     as
> >     asd
> >     asdf
> >
> > Now, I would expect all the buttons to take exactly half the window, but
> > they don't.  The buttons with shorter labels are slightly wider.  FWIW,
> > this happens with labels also, not just buttons
> >
> > So what's the deal?  
> >
> > My ultimate goal is to have a layout like this, where all the widgets
> > are lined up 1/3 of the way out from the left edge:
> >
> > Section heading
> > ----------------
> >      widget
> >      widget
> >      widget
> >
> > Another section
> > ----------------
> >      widget
> >      widget
> >
> >
> > ...is there a better way to do it?
> >
> > -Mark Ivey-
> >
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