Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:26:54 +1100
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd at mega-nerd.com>
To: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Box packing
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Hi all,

Some time ago I did some coding with the GTK+ widgets in C. I am
now trying to do something an Ocaml and I'm not finding it any
easier than it was in C :-).

I'm basically trying to construct something like a text editor
with a menubar at the top, a text are in the middle and scroll
bars to the right and bottom.

I've tried a bunch of different packing schemes but I have yet
to find a configuration that work as I would like it to under
window resizing operations.

The problems I'm facing are things like:

  - A scrollbar which either doesn't handle resize in the 
    horizontal direction or does resize in the vertical
    direction.

  - The main text box not completely filling the all the area
    minus the space taken up by the menubar and scroll bars.


Anyone have any wisdom to impart?

Cheers,
Erik
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  Erik de Castro Lopo
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"To me C++ seems to be a language that has sacrificed orthogonality
and elegance for random expediency." -- Meilir Page-Jones