| Re: Table widgets [message #17422 is a reply to message #17404] |
Sun, 10 October 1999 00:00   |
davidf
Messages: 2866
Registered: September 1996
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Nils Johnson (nilsj@unixg.ubc.ca) writes:
> : Don't know about the table widget. Don't use it. :-)
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> So what do you use to get a bunch of strings on the screen so
> that it looks like columns of text? Is the table widget overkill
> for doing this if I just want to display data and not have it be
> modified by the user?
Oh, it might be just the thing for this purpose. I don't
use it on principle, since I dislike it so much. I'd hack
something--anything--together to avoid using it and my program
would probably be worse off for it. :-)
> : I once took a survey of the 10 best widget programmers I knew.
> : I asked them how they size their text widgets. I got 10
> : completely different answers. The only common thread was
> : that each answer bordered on voodoo.
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> How about bugging your friends at RSI to fix this so there's no
> black magic anymore? Like getting a fixed-width font and then
> having a UNIT setting in characters...
My "friends" at RSI think I'm basically nuts and have
long since discounted my input on user-interface issues.
However, if *you* wrote them a note, I'd bet they would be
much more inclined to listen to the input. :-)
But if it is a fixed width font that you want, even
I can figure out a way to size text widgets:
stringValue='This is text'
textID = Widget_Text(tlb, Value=stringValue, $
XSize=StrLen(stringValue), Font='Courier*12')
It is all the non-proportionally spaced fonts that cause
the havoc.
Cheers,
David
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