On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 07:58:08AM -0700, Todd Chester via perl6-users wrote:
> > 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!So... I believe Timo gave you that as an example how to use a grid to position the various controls (buttons, text labels, input fields). You start there, you figure out what text labels, what input fields, what buttons you need, and then you use the 03-grid.p6 example as a base on how to do this with Raku and GTK+. G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@debian.org p...@storpool.com PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13
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