Re: "HELP/About" was :: [Re: suggestions on user config?]

[Michael Torrie <torriem gmail com>]

On 02/19/2012 02:25 PM, Gary Kline wrote:
> i've been looking for code to learn from.  i spotted this botton
> layout from the game 'Iagno' but could only find part of its source.
> lucky for me that i know c++.  be nice if there were some macro like 
> "GTK_BUTTONBOX_LEFT"!

GtkButtonBox is just a special type of layout widget that keeps the
buttons all the same size.  You can adjust it to put all the buttons to
the right, left, center, or evenly across the dialog box.  Or you can
use a regular hbox, set the padding and margins the way you want, and
use gtk_box_pack_start() to put them towards the left, and
gtk_box_pack_end() to put them towards the right.  And if set the
HOMOGENEOUS property, they will all be the same size.

I suggest you run glade-3 and just play with the layouts to get a feel
for how you can use layouts to accomplish what you want.  You can drag
and drop the layouts, put layouts in layouts, and drop buttons and
things in to see how they space out, etc.
http://www.micahcarrick.com/gtk-glade-tutorial-part-1.html, particularly
part 7 that talks about packing and layout.

You might even want to use glade to develop your GUIs and then use
GtkBuilder to build them in your program without using code (it is
easier once you figure out how it works).  Building GUIs with code is
still okay, but for large programs it's just too much of a pain!