[gtkada] Notebook question

[Preben Randhol]

manuel.op.de.coul at eon-benelux.com wrote on 08/10/2002 (13:43) :
> >I'm a bit confused with your design. If you have only one widget why do
> >you use a notebook in the first place?
> 
> I my program I have an array of objects that
> the user interacts with. I wanted to use a 
> notebook to show a text representation of them,
> one at a time. The tabs allow a quick selection
> of the object. I also have a spinbutton for the
> object number, which is connected to the notebook
> tabs.

Ok I'm not sure I understand but lets look at an example (you must view
this with monospace fonts like courier).

Say you have a program teaching about fruits. You have apples, oranges
and bananas. When you press on a tab you get a picture of the fruit and
some information about the fruit in a Text widget.

I would have designed this like this:

a hbox where I pack a notebook and a textwidget:

---------------------------------------------------------------
|  _____ ______ ______                                        |
| |Apple|Orange|Banana|     --------------------------------- |
| |----------------------   | The first trees to produce  |^| |
| |                     |   | sweet, flavourful apples    |#| |
| |       ,--./,-.      |   | similar to those we enjoy   |#| |
| |      / #      \     |   | today, were located many    |#| |
| |     |          |    |   | thousands of years ago near | | |
| |      \        /     |   | the modern city of Alma-Ata,| | |
| |       `._,._,'      |   | Kazakhstan.                 | | |
| |                     |   |                             | | |
| -----------------------   | The Greeks were growing     | | |
|                           | several varieties of apples | | |
|                           | by the late 300's BC, and   |v| |
|                           --------------------------------- |
---------------------------------------------------------------

And then every time one jump to a new page the text widget that is
outside the notbook gets new text. Thought I might have misunderstood
your program.

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