> On 12/05/2020 20:44, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
>>> On 12/05/2020 00:47, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
>>>> Hi All,
>>>>
>>>> I want to create a fill in form in Windows: city,
>>>> state, etc., you fill in the data.
>>>>
>>>> Is there some library out there for that?
>>>>
>>>> Any words of wisdom?
>>>>
>>>> Many thanks,
>>>> -T
>>
>>
>> On 2020-05-12 08:18, Timo Paulssen wrote:
>>> Hi Todd,
>>>
>>> normally I'd expect you want to create a grid with labels on the left
>>> and text inputs on the right.
>>>
>>> the examples/ folder in the GTK::Simple distribution (or the source on
>>> github) has an example of the Grid class, which is very powerful.
>>>
>>> The grid is possibly more complicated than you need it to be; instead
>>> you can probably have one VBox that contains one HBox for every label +
>>> input field.
>>>
>>> One benefit that the Grid will give you is that you can much more
easily
>>> line up all the fill-in text inputs, whereas with a VBox of HBoxes it
>>> may just make every text input as wide as possible so it (almost)
>>> touches the end of the label, so different words ("city" vs "first
>>> name") could result in different-sized text inputs.
>>>
>>> hope that helps
>>> - Timo
>>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Timo,
>>
>> You mean this one?
>>
>>
https://github.com/raku-community-modules/gtk-simple/blob/master/examples/03-grid.pl6
>>
>>
>> https://ibb.co/hgKHgW4
>>
>> I do not see the utility of what I am after.
>>
>> :'(
>>
>> -T
On 2020-05-13 05:26, Timo Paulssen wrote:
Is this not anything like what you're after?
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F2016%2FCR-css-grid-1-20160929%2Fimages%2Fauto-placed-form.png&f=1&nofb=1
Kind Regards
- Timo
Yes!
