Re: Widget Alignment

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Aug 9, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Ratcliffe, Jeffrey (Peters) wrote:

> > *  Explicitly set the internal alignment of the labels for left, like
> > "$labeld->set_alignment(0.0, 0.5)".  This doesn't change the  
> > amount of
> > leftover space, so you may want also to pack the labels with  
> > expand and
> > fill
> > false, but the comboboxes with expand and fill true.
>
> I assume that this is dangerous, because although it might look OK,  
> for instance, in Ubuntu, it might be different in Fedora Core. Or  
> don't styles/themes affect things?

Themes affect the font size and color and sometimes widget spacing,  
but they shouldn't affect alignment.


> > *  Use SizeGroups to ensure things line up.
>
> Would you point me at the documentation for this, please.

All that i know of is at http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/ 
GtkSizeGroup.html



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