Havoc Pennington wrote: ...
(if one is compelled to hack on boxes, my suggestion is to leave GtkBox alone but add a new nicer container like HippoCanvasBox, its features include: * have left/right/center/fill x/y alignment * you only need 1 "expand" boolean, alignment replaces "fill" with something more powerful * support IF_FITS mode * support children that are requested/allocated but not shown * support setting four (painted or transparent) borders independently * virtualize the "content" of the box vs. the the layout part, enabling many widgets to subclass box and thus automatically be containers with alignment and borders * and yes, support dynamically setting orientation Or whatever the nicer features are ... you could call the new container GtkLayout since that name is likely old enough to be recycled ;-)
... It might also be worthwhile to look at Tk's packer in detail. We didn't get it quite right with GtkPacker API-wise, but it is quite a powerful model and in a lot of languages it could be made a lot easier to use than vbox/hbox containers. -Shawn _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list