MySQL Building User Interfaces

GTK+ Containers as Resizer Controls

Certain widgets act like third-party resizer controls that are sold for VB development (including the GtkWindow widget, which also acts like a resizer control if you think about it). Among these widgets are the GtkButtonBox, the GtkVBox and GtkHBox, and the GtkTable. When resized, they automatically resize their child widgets. (A parent widget is one that contains children widgets.) The following sections describe the most common of these packing widgets.

The GtkVBox and GtkHBox Widgets

The GtkVBox widget creates a vertical box that will contain child widgets; the GtkHBox is horizontal. You can set policies, such as whether or not all children should remain the same size and how much spacing there should ...