From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2003-01-16T03:19:12+09:00
Subject: Re: [FxRuby] How to make widget span columns in FXMatrix?

Joey Gibson wrote:

> I have an FXMatrix defined thusly
> 
> matrix = FXMatrix.new(self, 2, MATRIX_BY_COLUMNS|LAYOUT_FILL_X) 
> 
> to which I've added several rows worth Labels and TextFields. Now I want a
> button that will span both of those columns. How would I do that? I don't
> see a constant to instruct the layout manager to do this.

I don't think you can do this (cells than span multiple rows or 
columns). You can usually get this effect using some combination of 
nested layout managers instead (e.g. a one-column matrix whose first row 
is itself a 1x2 matrix, and whose second row is the button).