[Gambas-user] Aligning widgets

[Benoit Minisini]

On Tuesday 30 January 2007 22:11, Laurent Duperval wrote:
> On 1/30/07, Charlie Reinl <Karl.Reinl at ...9...> wrote:
> > Salut Laurent,
>
> Salut Charlie,
>
>
> hold the Ctrl-Key down and mark with the mouse the buttons.
>
> > Then (the Ctrl-Key is still down) open the context-menu (right mouse
> > button) there you will found the needed.
>
> Not quite. I tried this but it doesn't quite  work as I want. Or else, I
> don't know how to do it correctly. For example, try this:
>
> Create 12 buttons. Now set them up in three rows and four columns. All
> buttons need to have the same height, and the same spacing between the
> buttons. Unless I do manual calculations and set the X/Y positions
> manually, I don't see how to do this.
>
> What I would like to do is to select them and tell Gambas to arrange them
> automatically in an orderly fashion.
>
> WIth other toolkits, you can create a layout manager that manages how
> widgets are placed on screen. Instead of giving each witget a position on
> the form, you put it in the grid manager and give the manager placement
> rules, and it figures out how to place the widgets correctly.
>
> Think of an HTML table: you create the table layout, tell the table how to
> manage column widths and lengths and it does it automatically as you add
> data to it.
>
> L
>
> Amicalment
>

There is no grid arrangement in Gambas, but you can do that by putting many 
HBox control in a VBox.

For example, you can create four HBox containers, put three buttons in each of 
them, and put these four HBox containers in one VBox.

Regards,

-- 
Benoit Minisini