Re: grid widget (was Re: possible removal of GtkWrapBox)

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 11:30 AM, Tristan Van Berkom
<tristanvb openismus com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 10:55 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:48 AM, Tristan Van Berkom
>> <tristanvb openismus com> wrote:
>>
>> > However I would really appreciate it if a widget's placement
>> > inside a container can still be clearly introspected and defined
>> > with container child properties (in other words I think the widget
>> > should be built with child properties and the 'cursor' be a
>> > convenience API layer of sorts).
>>
>> To me, what Havoc described really sounds like a layer of convenience
>> api or 'gridbuilder' on top of a widget that has child properties
>> similar to what my GtkGrid has.
>
>
> Matthias,
>   to reply to your previous mail about hfw management in general,
> I havent thought out GtkTable management in full detail (or implemented
> it) but here are some starting points:

Thanks, Tristan.

I have pushed an initial attempt at hfw in GtkGrid to the branch. It
would be great if you could check it out and let me know if I got
things halfway right. It seems to work ok for the few simple tests
that I've added.

Matthias