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Re: RE Questions about IDE and perhaps Win32Lib

• Posted by David Cuny <dcuny at LANSET.COM> Jun 25, 2003
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Derek wrote:

> I've been toying with the idea of allowing placement parameters specify
> which control they are relative to. This means that we can place a ControlB
> 2 pixels to the right of ControlA and have its top aligned with ControlC.
>
> I'm still working on a useful syntax for this.

This sort of stuff has been available under Linux for a long time. You might 
have a look at Tcl/Tk; it's got a pretty nice system. So does wxWindows and 
GTK.

A combination of button box sizers and flex grid sizers will often give you 
what you are looking for:

   http://inti.sourceforge.net/tutorial/libinti/cwbuttonboxes.html
   http://wiki.wxpython.org/index.cgi/wxDesigner_20Sizer_20Tutorial

-- David Cuny