RE: [perl-win32-gui-users] Newbie Qs about Layout and Coordinates

[Johan L. <johanl@DarSerMan.com>]

At 15:56 2005-12-06, Plum, Jason wrote:
>I'll admit I haven't used the GUI Loft in some time, and never when I have 
>used it did I take the opportunity to check for tab/alt-tab navigation.

When you build things in The GUI Loft the Tabstop property is enabled for 
all appropriate controls (i.e. a Button, but not a Label) by default. And 
you're supposed to order the controls in tab-order in the Control list to 
the left (one of my pet-peeves, I'm was sooo annoyed with ICQ for a number 
of years until I switched from their sloppily coded client).


>This is One of the right places to point out such an item however as Johan 
>does read this list time to time.

Oh, I'm just in stealth-mode :)


>Back to your original question on how to make the interface client 
>resolution relative, there is no "easy" way to get it all laid out nicely 
>and adjusting properly to the windows screen space other than making use 
>of the resizer code provided within the Loft/XMLBuilder or the 
>Win32::GUI::Resizer module. The Resizer module does provide a clear and 
>easy method for the auto-adjusting of the controls of the interface.

It seems XMLBuilder (structure) would be a better match than The GUI Loft 
(visual layout) for someone who has bad eye-sight. TGL doesn't put Win32 
controls in the Design window, it draws them there itself. So there is 
nothing for a screen reader to work with. TGL is also very much oriented 
around pixel positioning, rather than a layout engine which would be more 
suitable in this case.


/J