Re: form widget?

[Sascha Ziemann <szi aibon ping de>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor@gtk.org> writes:

| Shawn Amundson has been working on Tk-style packer widget. While
| someone different in detail, it should be at least as powerful
| as the Motif form widget. (And a lot easier to use. Tk's geometry
| management has a considerably better reputation than Motif's)
| 
| On other hand - I've also never anything I couldn't do with
| GTK's standard Tables, Alignments and Boxes.

Sometimes it it usefull to have a multicolumn or multirow feature like
in LaTeX. This is not possible with Gtk+.

For example you have a big image and a vbox next to it with some
rows. It is not possible to put such objects in a hbox and have the
rows aligned as if the image would not be there.

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