Re: Paned questions

[Olaf Leidinger <leidola newcon de>]

Am 04 Feb 2002 03:54:58 -0700 schrieb rhfreeman:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm wanting to use the paned widgets to re-size my current widgets but I'm a
> bit unsure about how it works.
> 
> My program is quite simple. It has a window with a vbox in it. It keeps
> adding hboxes to the vbox like this:
> 
> (no hboxes)
> 
> +------------+
> |            |
> |            |
> |            |
> |            |
> |            |
> +------------+
> 
> +------------+
> |            |
> |            |
> |   (hbox)   | 
> |            |
> |            |
> +------------+
> 
> +------------+
> |   hbox 1   |
> |            |
> |------------|
> |   hbox 2   |
> |            |
> +------------+
> 
> +------------+
> |   hbox 1   |
> |------------|
> |   hbox 2   |
> |------------|
> |   hbox 3   |
> +------------+
> 
> I want a paned widget on the separator between hboxes. So I want a paned
> widget controlling hbox1/hbox2 and another one controlling hbox2/hbox3.
> 
> So my questions are:
> 
> 1. Can a widget have multiple paned widgets attached to it?
> 2. Can a paned widget control any widget type? As most example code I've
> seen seems to be re-sizing a frame.
> 
> Thanks!!!
> 
> Rich
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Hello!

As I understood it a paned widget has two containers where you can add
widgets, a left side and a right one (or an upper and a lower).

+--------------+
|              |		
|  container 1 |
|              |  
+=== gutter ===+  
|              |		
|  container 2 |
|              | 
+--------------+

You can surely make a hbox to be child of a container.
And I think you don't have to set all the two childs of a paned widget
so you might create the following combination:

+----vbox----------+
| +- hpaned 1----+ |
| |              | |		
| |  child 1     | |
| |              | |  
| +=== gutter ===+ |  
| |              | |		
| |  child 2     | |
| |              | |
| +--------------+ |
| +- hpaned 2 ---+ |
| |              | |		
| |  empty/not   | |
| |  visible     | |
| |              | |  
| +=== gutter ===+ |  
| |              | |		
| |  child 2     | |
| |              | |
| +--------------+ |
+------------------+

or something similar.

Ciao

Olaf