[Fxruby-users] Re: Layout Manager questions in FxRuby

[Lyle J. <ly...@kn...>]

On Jun 15, 2004, at 10:28 AM, Richard Lionheart wrote:

> The attached program is an example I got from Hal Fulton's book,  or  
> rather,
> from his publisher's web site.  As the attached WordPad doc. shows with
> three images (resulting from running an enhanced version with optional
> arguments):
>
> 1.  The original program presents a window that displays two buttons  
> arrayed
> vertically.
> 2.  When an additional button is added,  however,  a narrower and  
> shorter
> window is presented.
> 3.  When the second window is expanded by dragging its border,  all  
> three
> buttons become fully visible.
>
> This raises the following questions.
>
> 1.  The default layout manager seems to be  FXVerticalFrame.  Is that  
> true?

You're adding the buttons directly as children of the FXMainWindow;  
FXMainWindow is just a subclass of FXTopWindow. According to this page  
from the FOX documentation:

	http://www.fox-toolkit.com/layout.html

the FXTopWindow "acts like an FXPacker window." I think that in your  
case it appears that it's using a vertical layout because the default  
layout hints for an FXButton are LAYOUT_SIDE_TOP and LAYOUT_SIDE_LEFT;  
in other words, unless you explicitly override those defaults, each new  
button will get "packed" to the top & left corner of the remaining  
space in the packer's cavity.

> 2.  The height of the window is appropriate when there are two  
> buttons, but
> not when there are three.  Why?

Actually, the height of the window *is* appropriate when I run it here  
on my Mac (i.e. under X11). I will have to see if I can reproduce your  
problem under Windows and try to go from there.

> 3.  The width of the window is dictated by width of the last button  
> added.
> True?

No, I'm pretty sure the width of the window is dictated by the width of  
the widest button.

> 4.  I found some good documentation on Layout Managers at
> http://www.eng.cse.dmu.ac.uk/~hgs/ruby/FXRuby/fox-1.0.40/doc/ 
> layout.html,
> but it didn't answer the foregoing questions. Is there other helpful  
> on-line
> documentation for layout managers?

No, not that I know of.