[Bf-committers] UI layout engine

[Joe Eagar]

As an aside, swing has a GridBag layout manager that lets you specify ui 
elements in a grid, but also to merge cells to together to allow a 
greater degree of flexibility.  I havn't tried it yet, but it sounds 
useful; maybe a similar approach could be used for blender.

Also one concept in swing is the use of subframes within a panel 
(actually its subpanels within a frame using their terminology); that 
should definitely be supported.  We need rock-solid 
container-within-container-within-container support.

Joe

Alexander Ewering wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Martin Poirier wrote:
>
>   
>> If that can automatically calculate optimum button
>> width depending on their content, great, but I think
>> I'd prefer Alex's relative sizing/positioning idea
>> better.
>>     
>
> The uiBlockBeginHRow() and VRow functions imply automatic layout -- as I
> said, uiDefBut() calls should NOT take any coordinates AT ALL then - they
> automatically get stuffed into their respective containers (rows, columns,
> or maybe a "grid" container).
>
> Alexander Ewering
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