Re: Gtk2::Table widget alignment

[Gavin Brown <gavin brown uk com>]

> in such situations i've made a habit of rearranging things so that i can
> vectorize the creation of the table rows.  this has the added benefit of
> decoulpling things so that you can rearrange and replace them quite easily. 
> perl is great for this sort of thing.
>
>   # declare the row relationships as data rather than code
>   @rows = (
>      { label => 'foo', type => 'entry', var => \$foo_val }
>      { label => 'bar', type => 'bool', var => \$bar_val }
>      { label => 'baz', type => 'entry', var => \$baz_val }
>   );
>   foreach my $r (@rows) {
>      # write the logic to create a row once
>      # with different cases for different row types
>   }

I always thought there was was a space for a module that might be called
Gtk2::Form, that basically did all that stuff for you. Would probably
make the creation of preferences dialogs a *lot* easier.

Just one of the many things I've never got round to doing :-/

Gavin.

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