Re: [gtk-list] Re: [dreed@capital.edu: size of entry and combos]

[Tom Vogt <tom lemuria org>]

Havoc Pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu> wrote:
> No, not that I can think of. It might be a nice container type to have
> though, shouldn't be especially hard to write. (GtkPercentBox?) Looks to
> me like most of the GtkBox/GtkHBox widget code is fooling with
> expand/fill, homegeneity, blah blah that wouldn't be an issue with
> GtkPercentBox/GtkHPercentBox/GtkVPercentBox, it's probably a real quick
> widget to write, mostly typing work. Could even be worth folding into Gtk. 

does that have to be a new widget? you can set the alignment in floats
between 0 and 1 already, why not just change the expand/fill to use the same
mechanics? as the current use is TRUE and FALSE, that would result in zero
change for existing applications while allowing fine-tuning along the lines
talked about here in future ones.


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