Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 21:13:39 +1100
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <ocaml-erikd at mega-nerd.com>
To: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: Box packing
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Hi Oliver,

Thanks for responding.

Olivier Andrieu wrote:

> The usual way to contol this is via the optional arguments of the
> #pack method of GPack.hbox and GPack.vbox. In lablgtk, the default
> value for `expand' is false and for `fill' true (but the fill argument
> is ignored when expand is false). 

I've actually tried a bunch of combinations of both.

> See the gtk tutorial for a demo of how these options affect packing:
> http://www.gtk.org/tutorial/x383.html 

I've read through that in the past, but I'm currently working from

    http://pllab.kaist.ac.kr/~shoh/ocaml/lablgtk2/lablgtk2-tutorial/book1.html

which has an Ocaml version of the example you pointed me to.

Cheers,
Erik
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