From: Mathieu Bouchard <matju@...>
Date: 2002-02-05T21:54:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Progress with Ruby/Tk


On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Peter Hickman wrote:
> Thanks for all the help and pointers that people have given me, as you 
> can see from my previous post things are going well. But now we have a 
> much harder one.
> This is a dialog box rendered in glorious ASCII, monospaced font a must.
>  
> [dialog box with horiz packing of 3 buttons]
> 
> What I want is.
>  
> [dialog box with vertic packing of 3 buttons]

> I've noticed a message_config key as part of the TkDialog hash but can't 
> see how to use it.
> Can I modify a dialog to look like this or am I looking to create a 
> whole new widget?

tkdialog.rb uses dialog.tcl which has hardcoded horiz packing. if you want
to do things a different way, you probably need to recode the dialog.

Unless you want to change all dialogs... then you could dig for dialog.tcl
and change:

        grid $w.button$i -in $w.bot -column $i -row 0 -sticky ew -padx 10
        grid columnconfigure $w.bot $i
	...
                grid columnconfigure $w.bot $i -minsize [expr {59 + 20}]

to:

        grid $w.button$i -in $w.bot -column 0 -row $i -sticky ew -padx 10
        grid rowconfigure $w.bot $i
	...
                grid rowconfigure $w.bot $i -minsize [expr {59 + 20}]

(or something.)

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