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Re: [RFC] Adding labels to comboboxes...
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- Subject: Re: [RFC] Adding labels to comboboxes...
- From: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2001 10:52:45 -0700
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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