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Help With Button Layout

Laura Creighton lac at strakt.com
Thu Dec 12 07:08:52 EST 2002 
> Hello Norman,
> 
> Thank you very much for your advise.
> 
> The reason why I went with the Grid manager was because the books that
> I had read said that the Grid was far more superior than the Pack
> manager. I had, during the construction of my GUI, wondered if the
> Pack would be more suitable. Let me have a go at the pack manager.
> 
> Thanks for the tip on putting borders around the canvas. The only was
> I knew of seeing where the borders of my canvases were was to play
> around with the columspan of my Entry row at the bottom of the GUI. A
> very crude method.
> 
> Thanks for the insight. I'll try it and have a go.
> 
> Just one more question, if I may. Is it easy to make, let's say a
> point, highlight itself if my mouse moves over it? I am thinking of
> snapping to object, like MS Word has when I want to draw a line
> between two point, when my mouse clicks on the Line icon and the moves
> close to the first point, the point should highlight itself and when I
> click near it, it should be selected. Will this be easy to implement?
> I would just like to know the ideas on how to implement it
> 
> Thanks a bunch.
> 
> Regards,
> Kenneth.

You definitely need to get pynche out of your python tools directory to
see one way this can be done.  PMW (available at sourceforge) does things
another way, which is also good.

Laura Creighton
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