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Re: [RFC] Adding labels to comboboxes...



On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, at 09:37  AM, insight-digest-
help@sources.redhat.com wrote:

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue Oct 02, 2001  03:53:06  PM US/Pacific
> To: Keith Seitz <keiths@cygnus.com>
> Cc: Syd Polk <spolk@baritoneconsulting.com>, Insight Maling List 
> <insight@sources.redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding labels to comboboxes...
> Reply-To: tromey@redhat.com
>
>>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Seitz <keiths@cygnus.com> writes:
>
>>> "place" is evil, evil, evil. Using "grid" or "pack" is much preferred.
>
> Keith> Yeah, that's what I mean! :-)
> Keith> Although, we do use it for that windows thumb resize thingy...
>
> And in the labelled frame widget in libgui.
> But this is the exception that proves the rule.

Tk 8.4 has a built-in labelled frame widget that seems to work pretty 
well.  The geometry is all managed down at the C level, so it is faster 
on the resize, and such.  Yet another bit of custom code y'all can whack 
pretty soon!

Jim
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Jim Ingham                                   jingham@apple.com
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