Re: [gtkmm] Q: how to centre in a VBox?

[Martin Schulze <martin-ml hippogriff de>]

Am 2003.10.22 18:01 schrieb(en) D. R. Evans:
> I'm sure this is utterly trivial... but after several hours of 
> trying, I'm giving up and asking for help.
>
> I have several HBoxes, which I would like to pack into a VBox that is 
> displayed as a page in a Notebook.
>
> How do I pack things so that when the Notebook page displays, the 
> HBoxes are vertically centred (either exactly or to a reasonable 
> approximation) on the page? So that the page looks like:
>
> -------------------------------
> |                             |
> |                             |
> |        hbox here            |
> |        hbox here            |
> |        hbox here            |
> |                             |
> |                             |
> -------------------------------

You could use a hbox and add e.g. an empty label before and
after the widgets that should be shown centered with expand=true.

(I just played a bit with glade and it seems that putting the hbox
inside an alignment doesn't help - I wonder why?)

Regards,

  Martin