Re: A springs and struts widget for GTK+

[Russell Shaw <rjshaw netspace net au>]

Greg Breland wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 00:50, andrey wrote:
>
> > hi,
> >
> > i have a question in accordance with your message.
> > Is there in GTK+ "Position Layout", like in most of gui-libraries?
> > For example i want to place label or button in position x=100, y=100, 
> > width=100 and height=25. (sorry for my english)
>
>
> Yes, there is the GTKFixed layout container.  It's highly recommended
> that you use containment based layout instead of absolute layout unless
> you know what your getting into.  All sorts of layout problems will
> happen with the GTKFixed layout when the user uses a different
> font/DPI/etc than you do when designing a form.
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkFixed.html

What's wrong with the M$ windows way of layout?