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Re: Best way to prevent deformed IDL widgets? [message #3929 is a reply to message #3754]

Fri, 24 March 1995 02:05

Fergus Gallagher
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> Subject: Best way to prevent deformed IDL widgets?
> Date: 14 Mar 1995 20:15:04 GMT
> From: patterso@astrosun.tn.cornell.edu (Tim Patterson)
> Organization: Cornell University
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.idl-pvwave

> I am using IDL to create some widgets for data handling. When I create the
> window and place the widgets in it, IDL will stretch the last widget
> in a row so that it matches the width of the window. This means for
> instance, that if I try and put three buttons at the bottom of a wide
> window such as PRINT USE and CLOSE I get:

> | PRINT | | USE | | CLOSE |

> with the close button being stretched out of shape.

> Is it possible to either (a) stretch all buttons in proportion or
> (b) prevent this stretching mechanism by a simple method (fixing the
> size of the widgets directly makes it awkward to update at a later
> date)

The solution I use is to put the buttons in there own widget_base(). You will need
to give a size for this, unfortunately.

Fergus

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