Re: Flowing columned container

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 14:42, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 06:43, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > I think I remember some discussion about a container that would organise
> > its child widgets in columns, moving them into the previous/next column
> > as the container's height changed, like text in newspaper columns.
> > 
> > Does anyone remember if this was ever implemented anywhere?
> 
> This is in general known as width-for-height geometry management, 
> and is covered by http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104188

I don't think that's the same thing. I think that's talking about
widgets whose width will increase when their height increases.

I'm talking about a container that might have widgets arranged like
this:

child1 child4 child7
child2 child5
child3 chidl6

but when the container is made less high, they will be arranged like
this:

child1 child3 child5 child7
child2 chidl4 child6

Also, the minimum height would therefore be constrainted by the total
child widget height and the number of columns in the container.
 
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