On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Andy Selvig <[email protected]> wrote: > Using fixed layout is generally a bad idea when you're making GUI's. When > you make a form that has a bunch of labels and text boxes you should > definitely NOT use fixed layout since it makes your form intolerant to > resizing and internationalization. In this case, using things like tables > and HBox/VBox are the way to go. > However, there are situations where having the ability to specify the > coordinate position of a control relative to its parent is useful, and I > think that your problem is one of them. It's a special case that goes > outside of the normal use case for GUI toolkits.
It's perfectly possible to have a custom widget position a child entry directly. You don't necessarily need the Fixed to do this for you. -- Michael Hutchinson http://mjhutchinson.com _______________________________________________ Gtk-sharp-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/gtk-sharp-list
