Re: [Tile-dev] -width option for tile label widgets

[Joe E. <jen...@fl...>]

Csaba Nemethi wrote:

> The -width option for tile labels is always in characters, even if the
> widget contains an image (in this case, the value of the -width option
> is silently ignored).

It should only be ignored if the text label is not displayed at all,
i.e., if '-compound image' or '-compound none -image $someImage'
is specified.

... at least that's what's supposed to happen; looks like
it isn't implemented correctly.  But the intended behavior
is that '-width' always specifies the width in characters
of the text part of the label, regardless of the value of
'-compound' and '-image'.

> Another question:  Why do tile label widgets have no -height option?

Historical accident, mostly.  An early assumption was that label
widgets would only support single-line text, and that message widgets
would be used for multi-line text.


--Joe English

  jen...@fl...