| Re: controlling widget layout [message #55660 is a reply to message #55460] |
Tue, 28 August 2007 10:38  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Richard Clark writes:
> SPACE is useful.
> YPAD helps a little but doesn't do quite what I was wanting. It puts
> space both above and below the row. I was wanting space above row N,
> or below row N-1 because there is a row N+1 where I don't want the
> extra space... like a blank line between paragraphs in text.
>
> I had also experimented a little with the ALIGN and BASE_ALIGN
> keywords. But in my app they don't seem to have much affect at all.
I've never had much luck with the ALIGN keywords on normal
widgets. They tend to change the natural width of widgets in
ways I never fully understand. I do use a lot of BASE_ALIGN
keywords in base widgets. I can futz around with this layout
for a couple of hours and eventually get something I like,
but at the end of the day I wonder why I bothered. No one
but me seems to notice, and the whole thing looks different
when I put it on my clients UNIX machine anyway. :-(
Cheers,
David
P.S. I *have* completely re-written all the widgets as objects,
however, and one of the reasons I did so was to have a great
deal more control over how things lay out and align with other
widgets. As least *that* part gives me some satisfaction. :-)
--
David Fanning, Ph.D.
Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
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