Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:07:23 +1100
From: Erik de Castro Lopo <erikd at mega-nerd.com>
To: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: Box packing
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Olivier Andrieu wrote:

> Right:
> 
> - don't use #add for packing in boxes, you can't control the options:
>   #add happens to use expand:true and fill:true, you usually don't want
>   that for a menubar. Use #pack instead.
> 
> - use the GBin.scrolled_window for adding scrollbars, it takes care of
>   all the packing, connecting, etc. of your widget
> 
> Updated code in attachment.

Brilliant Oliver. Much appreciated.

I suppose that this goes to reinforce what I always thought about GTK+;
its too complicated and flexible to make things that should be easy
as easy as possible.

Anyway, I can now get back to trying to get something actually done :-).

Cheers,
Erik
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