Re: GUI construction tips

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

Daniel Pekelharing wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-21 at 14:10 +0100, Fernando ApesteguÃa wrote:
>
> > One more thing: what about if my problem now is with vertical alignment? i.e.
> > my labels are so close to the top border of the window.
>
>
> The padding sets a space all around the widget, so it should solve both
> problems at one go... I don't know if there's anyway to set only
> horizontal or vertical padding - I've never had the need for it
> personally, although I daresay it can most probably be done..

You can use the "top-padding" property of the GtkAlignment container
or you might use the "spacing" property of the GtkVBox.

Cheers,
                 -Tristan