Re: need spacer

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

hi;

On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 19:11 +0700, beast wrote:
> I would like to have 10px space between next and cancel.
>
> [ back ] [ next ]       [cancel]
>
> however, this following code gives more spaces than what I need. I think 
> its due to homogeneous settings.
>
> my $hbbox = Gtk2::HButtonBox->new();
> $hbbox->set_layout("end");
> $hbbox->set_spacing(2);
> $hbbox->set_homogeneous(FALSE);
>
> my $spacer = Gtk2::Label->new();
> $spacer->set_size_request(0,8);
>
> $hbbox->add($back);
> $hbbox->add($next);
> $hbbox->add($spacer);
> $hbbox->add($cancel);

drop the button box and use a Gtk2::Alignment:

 Gtk2::HBox
 +---- Gtk2::Button [back]
 +---- Gtk2::Button [next]
 +---- Gtk2::Alignment
       +---- Gtk2::Button [cancel]

set the alignment to full right and add a padding of 10 px on the left;
this should solve your problem.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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