From: Gregory Millam <walker@...>
Date: 2004-04-08T21:06:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Simplified GTK

Gaah! I've been working on an implementation of EzGtk and I came across this problem:

What's a good way to specify packing options using EzGtk style? - Or for that matter, alignment?

Mostly came up during this

vbox {
  expand false # don't expand and fill, give other widgets priority
  menubar { 
    menu "File" {
      menuitem "Open" { ... }
      ...
    }
    align_right
    menu "Help" {
      ...
    }
  }
  expand true # Widgets after this get all the extra space
  scintilla { ... }
}

Thoughts? ideas?

(Regarding the 'scintilla' bit: I wrote a ruby-gtk2 binding for scintilla last December (for gtk2, as opposed to fxscintilla). I just haven't bothered finishing it up yet, or figured out how get extconf working to make it releasable. It's still highly usable - the only things not implemented are those that involve styles (where a string is a set of 16 bit "characters" - one character byte, one style byte))

- Greg Millam