You could use anchor_x/anchor_y. On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 9:50 PM, Amy C <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a St.BoxLayout into which I am placing box (St.BoxLayout) and > bin (St.Bin) vertically: > > layout = new St.BoxLayout({vertical: true}); > layout.add(box); > layout.add(bin); > > The items in `box` are all of height 2em, but `box` itself is styled > to have height 1em. This is to make the items in `box` (buttons) > overlap the `bin` vertically. > > The overlapping works fine, but the buttons appear *below* the > contents of the bin so are visually cut off. > > If I try `box.raise_top()` to make the buttons in `box` appear on > top of `bin`, `box` moves (visually) to the very bottom of `layout`. > > How can I keep `box` visually at the top of `layout`, but have the > buttons inside it overlapping `bin` and appearing on top of `bin`? > > -------- > One way tried was setting the height of `box` at run time like so: > > layout.add(box); > Mainloop.idle_add(function () { // wait for height to be allocated > box.y -= box.height/2; > }); > > This works, but causes a noticable relayout of `layout` where when it > first appears space has been allocated for the full `box.height`, and > then milliseconds later you see it flicker to the proper > `box.height/2`. > > (I can't hard-code the height because it's in ems, not pixels). > > The effect I'm thinking of is like how in the Overview the close > button overlaps the window thumbnail: imagine my `box` being full of > buttons that I want to half-overlap vertically with `bin` being the > thumbnail. > > cheers. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-shell-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-shell-list
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