Re: GtkSpreadTable ('spread-table' branch)

[Tristan Van Berkom <tristanvb openismus com>]

On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:04 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 23:31 +0900, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
> > For what its worth I finally applied this algorithm
> > to the 'spread-table' branch.
> > 
> > In the case that the trailing columns get no
> > widgets, one widget is placed in each of the trailing
> > columns (again, only happens with lots of columns
> > and not enough widgets... and seems to look good
> > this way IMO) 
> 
> I think you have broken the single-line case. No child widgets seem to
> appear for me now when lines=1.
>  

Interesting I'll check that out, the current expected results is that
it still lines up children on 2 lines (i.e. thats the current minimum
for the "lines" property, so I would expect a warning message and
a behaviour of 2 lines).

Since having a single-line spread table is desired, I'll go ahead
and change that (I suppose 2 lines is still a good default though).

fwiw, there's another unhandled case; currently when there are
less widgets in the table than there are lines declared; space
is still allocated for the extra missing lines.

Is it desirable to:
  a.) Only request and allocate space for columns we have enough
      widgets to fill ?

or 
  b.) Request and allocate space for a third column if only 2 widgets
      are in the box (leaving the impression that there is actually
      a third column that is simply unpopulated) ?

I'm pretty sure that 'a' is the reasonable choice but I was not 
entirely sure.

Cheers,
       -Tristan