[gtkada] VBox with V_Separator too wide

[Nicolas Setton]

Hi Rick,

add your separator with Expand=> False so that it does not request  
space from the vbox.

Nico

On 2 Jun 2009, at 11:33, Rick Duley wrote:

> Hi folks
>
> I have a V_Separator in an HBox in the second cell of another HBox.   
> Code is:
>
>       -- Create Buttons_HBox which will eventually have 3 cells.
>       Gtk.Box.Gtk_New_HBox (Box         => The_Gadget.Buttons_HBox,
>                             Homogeneous => false,
>                             Spacing     => 0);
>
>       -- Create V_Sep_HBox.
>       Gtk.Box.Gtk_New_HBox (Box         => The_Gadget.V_Sep_HBox,
>                             Homogeneous => TRUE,
>                             Spacing     => 0);
>       -- Create V_Sep.
>       Gtk.Separator.Gtk_New_Vseparator (Separator =>  
> The_Gadget.V_Sep);
>
>       -- Install V_Sep in V_Sep_HBox.
>       Gtk.Box.Pack_Start (In_Box  => The_Gadget.V_Sep_HBox,
>                           Child   => The_Gadget.V_Sep,
>                           Expand  => True,
>                           Fill    => True,
>                           Padding => 0);
>
>       -- Install V_Sep_HBox in Buttons_HBox.
>       Gtk.Box.Pack_Start (In_Box  => The_Gadget.Buttons_HBox,
>                           Child   => The_Gadget.V_Sep_HBox,
>                           Expand  => True,
>                           Fill    => True,
>                           Padding => 3);
>
> To the left of the separator is a big button, to the right a stack  
> of three buttons.  It should look like this:
>
> +-----------------------------------------+
> | +--------------+ +---+ +--------------+ |
> | |              | | | | |              | |
> | |              | | | | +--------------+ |
> | |              | | | |                  |
> | |              | | | | +--------------+ |
> | |              | | | | |              | |
> | |              | | | | +--------------+ |
> | |              | |   | |              | |
> | +--------------+ +---+ +--------------+ |
> +-----------------------------------------+
>
> The problem is that the separator fills a space in the window almost  
> as large as the buttons.  I would expect the separator to appear  
> only as a thin line sandwiched tightly between the buttons.  It  
> actually looks more like this:
>
> +-----------------------------------------+
> | +-----------+ +---------+ +-----------+ |
> | |           | |    |    | |           | |
> | |           | |    |    | +-----------+ |
> | |           | |    |    |               |
> | |           | |    |    | +-----------+ |
> | |           | |    |    | |           | |
> | |           | |    |    | +-----------+ |
> | |           | |    |    | |           | |
> | +-----------+ +---------+ +-----------+ |
> +-----------------------------------------+
>
> How do I control the width of the separator (and/or the HBoxes).
>
> Thanks
>
>
>
> -- 
> Rick Duley
> North Perth,
> Western Australia
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