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Re: Font compatibility question [message #61421]

Thu, 17 July 2008 10:02

pdoherty
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Registered: April 2007

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On Jul 17, 12:24 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> pdoherty writes:
>> Any information would be appreciated. I'd rather not have to go
>> through this
>> whole package and add a lot of OS based case statements.
>
> My advice would be to use column and base widgets for program
> layout and don't explicitly size *anything*. But maybe it's
> too late for this excellent advice. :-(
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> --

Thank yo fo rthe advice, but I find that *some* things need to
be sized or the program gets too ugly.

I want a base that holds a stack of widget_buttons, so I create
a column oriented base and fill it with buttons. I want all
the buttons to be the same width, so I set it. Otherwise they
are all sized by the system based on the text that labels them.
It doesn't get much uglier than that. Is there some other way
to force them to be the same? I suppose I could create bitmaps
that were the same size and held the label text, but that is
ugly programming.

I tried to avoid explicit sizing of items when I wrote this,
but found many circumstances in which that led to a very ugly
layout.

- Peter Doherty

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		Re: Font compatibility question By: pdoherty on Thu, 17 July 2008 10:02
		Re: Font compatibility question By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 July 2008 09:24
		Re: Font compatibility question By: David Fanning on Thu, 17 July 2008 10:10
		Re: Font compatibility question By: Michael Galloy on Thu, 17 July 2008 10:09

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