Re: [gtk-list] Packing help

[Vidar Madsen <vidar vidar prosalg no>]

Hi.

> I'm new to GTK (and I'm moving from MSVC, so don't be hard on me), and I
> have this question about packing.
> 
> I want to create something like this:
> 
> *****
> *****
> ***** *****
> 
> Where every '*****' is a button. I understand how to pack boxes into
> boxes, but all I managed to reach so far is this:
> 
> ******
> ******
> **  **
> 
> (The last two buttons shrinks into the size of one button).
> Where am I going wrong? This is my code in short:
> 
> box1 = gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, 0);
> gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), box1);
> gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box1), button[1], TRUE, TRUE, 0);
> gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box1), button[2], TRUE, TRUE, 0);
> 
> box2 = gtk_hbox_new(FALSE, 0);
> gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box1), box2, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
> gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box2), button[0], 0, 0, 0);
> gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box2), button[1], 0, 0, 0);

Try something like this instead (i.e. put two vboxes into one hbox);

 box1 = gtk_hbox_new(FALSE, 0);
 gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), box1);

 box2 = gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, 0);
 gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box1), box2, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
 gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box1), button[0], TRUE, TRUE, 0);
 gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box1), button[1], TRUE, TRUE, 0);
 gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box1), button[2], TRUE, TRUE, 0);
 
 box2 = gtk_vbox_new(FALSE, 0);
 gtk_box_pack_start(GTK_BOX(box1), box2, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
 gtk_box_pack_end(GTK_BOX(box2), button[3], FALSE, FALSE, 0);

(You might want to try changing some more TRUEs to FALSEs here, to avoid
button[3] taking up the entire column.. Haven't checked.) 

Or, if you want more control over which buttons go where, you might want
to take a look at the table-widget as well.

Good luck

Vidar