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Re: widget layout [message #31430 is a reply to message #5128]

Fri, 12 July 2002 10:42

notspecified
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Registered: February 2002

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On Fri, 12 Jul 2002 13:20:03 -0400, Ted Cary <tedcary@yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Is there a way to query a realized widget base to see what kind of
> layout it enforces? I want a function that tells me if a base uses a
> row, a column, or a bulletin board layout. If this information can be
> obtained directly with WIDGET_INFO or WIDGET_CONTROL, I could not tell
> from reading the help files.
>
> I�ve tried analyzing the geometry of the base with respect to the
> geometry of its children in order to determine the layout, but this only
> works if there is already more than one child. It�s occurred to me to
> add and then delete a "small" child (maybe a null string widget label)
> to see which dimension of the base expands, but the problems with this
> are obvious. Probably I am missing something.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
>

Hmm, well, if there isn't a direct way of doing it, I guess you could
save that sort of information in the base's uvalue as part of the
state of the widget.

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		Widget layout in BASE to get table in IDL 4.0 By: nmw on Thu, 05 October 1995 00:00
		Re: widget layout By: Ted Cary on Sun, 14 July 2002 15:11
		Re: widget layout By: David Fanning on Mon, 15 July 2002 15:24
		Re: widget layout By: Mark Hadfield on Sun, 14 July 2002 14:49
		Re: widget layout By: Matt Feinstein on Sun, 14 July 2002 10:10
		Re: widget layout By: Ted Cary on Sat, 13 July 2002 16:03
		Re: widget layout By: notspecified on Fri, 12 July 2002 10:42

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