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Re: Widget Placement [message #12746 is a reply to message #12743]

Fri, 04 September 1998 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Bernard Puc (bpuc@va.aetc.com) writes:

> Is there a neat way of locating a widget to appear flush against the
> bottom and right edge of the screen? By neat I mean without having
> to calculate the x and y dimensions of the widget and figuring out
> the offsets.

I should think that, given a top-level widget base ID, a
computer would be good at finding out the size of the base,
the size of the display, calculating the offsets, and positioning
the base where you wanted it. Have you thought about
writing a procedure that did this? Then you could call the
procedure instead of calculating all of this stuff
with a pencil. :-)

Cheers,

David

P.S. Don't be overly concerned with positioning widget programs.
People with pointing devices tend to move things where they want
them, no matter what kind of layout you think is aesthetically
pleasing.

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		Re: Widget Placement By: davidf on Fri, 04 September 1998 00:00
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