Re: GtkSpreadTable ('spread-table' branch)

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 17:18 +0200, Murray Cumming wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 08:54 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Oh, I see now it's a WrapBox replacement I guess (reading threads out of order)
> 
> Well, not quite. This one has a fixed number of columns (or rows,
> depending on the orientation). That makes its layout quite different
> than if the number of rows was variable. I think of this one as being
> like newspaper columns.
> 
> Here are some screenshots of tests/testspreadtable from the spread-table
> branch:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/murrayc/sets/72157624989723865/detail/ 
> 
> It makes possible (dynamic) arrangements of widgets like this:
> http://www.glom.org/wiki/index.php?title=File:Small_glom_data_details.png
> 
> 
> Maybe it's not wanted by many people, but people ask for it every now
> and then. I want it myself, so I obviously have an incentive to have it
> maintained inside GTK+.

If nobody says they want this soon then I guess we'll just put it in
libegg.

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