From: Hal Fulton <hal9000@...>
Date: 2004-04-09T13:23:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Idea: Simplified GTK

Gregory Millam wrote:
> 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?

I'm not ready to let this thread die.  ;)

> 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?

I thought these options were constant for the container? I guess
I'm wrong about that?

> (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))

That's very cool. Scintilla is as powerful as they come (afaik). Its
learning curve ranges from shallow to vertical, though.


Hal