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Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 29, 2012 0:14 UTC (Fri) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar) by wahern
Parent article: Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

...handle widget nesting, placement, and resizing automagically

That's correct. Tk's geometry managers (the packer, the placer and the gridder) are still better than any other toolkit geometry managers I've seen.

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Posted Jun 29, 2012 8:19 UTC (Fri) by rwst (guest, #84121) [Link]

And when I recently had a look at Qt I specifically sought
such a placement function, and was quite disappointed that
it wasn't included.

Why learn C? (O'Reilly Radar)

Posted Jun 29, 2012 12:14 UTC (Fri) by richmoore (subscriber, #53133) [Link]

Qt has quite a decent set of layout managers, which one were you missing?