Hi. There's something I don't get with the behaviour of homogeneous in Gtk.Box. I guess there must be a reason for it working this way. I just don't get the logic.
From http://pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/sec-DetailsOfBoxes.html : "The homogeneous argument [... ]controls whether each object in the box has the same size." "If homogeneous is set, then "the pack routines function essentially as if the expand argument was always turned on." Though it works "as if the expand argument was always turned on", "each object in the box has the same size" is not really what I see. What I see : ---------- 1.a/ homogeneous = True expand = whatever fill = False (for all objects) -> Objects are scattered along the line (it is a HBox), with space in between. They may be provided equal space, but don't actually fill it, so they appear with different sizes. [ |a| |abc| || ] 1.b/ homogeneous = True expand = whatever fill = True (for all objects) -> Objects use all the line and are of equal size [| a || abc || | ] What I would expect : ------------------- 2.a/ homogeneous = True expand = False fill = whatever -> Objects would be of the same size : the size of the largest one, and they would be left-aligned (pack_start() being used). [| a ||abc|| | ] 2.b/ homogeneous = True expand = True fill = False -> Objects would be of the same size : the size of the largest one, and they would be scattered along the line with space in between. [ | a | |abc| | | ] 2.c/ homogeneous = True expand = True fill = True -> Objects would be of the same size and fill the line. [| a || abc || |] This seems more logical to me. I can't figure out why it does not work this way. Besides, I don't see how to obtain 2.a/ any other way. Am I the only one who would expect things to work this way (or at least a different way) ? -- Jérôme _______________________________________________ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
