Re: Undeprecate GtkAlignment ?

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

Hi;

On 2 June 2015 at 13:02, salsaman <salsaman gmail com> wrote:
> Thanks. What would be an example to center a widget horizontally and/or
> vertically in its container, without the center widget expanding ?

gtk_widget_set_halign (child, GTK_ALIGN_CENTER);
gtk_widget_set_valign (child, GTK_ALIGN_CENTER);

A simple example: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/228024/33247850

More information available on:
https://developer.gnome.org/gtk/stable/GtkWidget.html

Ciao,
 Emmanuele.

> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 8:38 AM, Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi;
> >
> > On 2 June 2015 at 12:06, salsaman <salsaman gmail com> wrote:
> > > Yeah, I second that ! It's a very useful widget, it should be retained
> > > or
> > > replaced with something similar.
> >
> > It's replaced with "something similar": the alignment and expansion
> > properties on GtkWidget.
> >
> > Instead of requiring a specific container, you can use the alignment
> > on any widget and any container.
> >
> > Ciao,
> >  Emmanuele.
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 4:01 PM, Pierre Wieser <pwieser trychlos org>
> > > wrote:
> > > > Hi all,
> > > >
> > > > I am the maintainer of Nautilus-Actions, currently working to getting
> > > > rid of Gtk2 scories, porting to last Gtk3 features, and extending to
> > > > other file managers.
> > > >
> > > > After having migrated my laptop to last Fedora 22, I notice that the
> > > > GtkAlignment widget has been deprecated (since Gtk 3.14 according to
> > > > the doc).
> > > >
> > > > Rightly or not, I do a heavy use of GtkAlignment as it provides in
> > > > Glade some sort of transparent container, where I am able to later
> > > > add any widget from the code.
> > > > Setting align and margin properties in each candidate child make my
> > > > code heavier and less agile. Intuitively, I am going to try to
> > > > factorize these alignment properties, thus recreating a GtkAlignment-
> > > > like bunch of functions.
> > > >
> > > > This appears to me as unneeded work, without any added value :(
> > > >
> > > > Would it be possible to envisage undeprecation of GtkAlignment widget ?
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > > Pierre
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