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From: John English <je@bton.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: More GUI
Date: 2000/05/31
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Emmanuel Briot wrote:
> "William J. Thomas" <wjthomas@wcvt.com> wrote:
> > Some suggestions for the Ada GUI builders:: A box, container, or even
> a
> > window widget that allows for the fixed placement of all others
> components
> > inside it, but once the container is manually resized at runtime it
> allows
> > for the automatic resizing of all of the fixed placed and sized
> components
> > inside of it.
> 
> Note that the first step (fixed placement) is already doable with
> gtk+/GtkAda,
> the container is called suprisingly enough GtkFixed !  No automatic
> resizing
> is provided however. I don't remember seeing an interface where the size
> of
> the contents changes dynamically when the size of the window is changed.
> Is
> this something recommended by Microsoft GUI coding standards ?

JEWL allows this to some extent: component sizes <= 0 are taken as
relative to the parent container size and are resized automatically
if the parent size changes, and top/left coordinates < 0 are relative
to the bottom/right of the parent container and are repositioned
automatically when the parent size changes.

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