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[Henner Zeller <h.zeller@xxxxxxx>]

On 19 February 2014 10:41, Vesa Solonen <vesa.solonen@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 19/02/14 08:14, Henner Zeller kirjoitti:
>
>>> One minor comment on your dialog layout, take a look at some of the
>>> layout space in some of the other dialogs.  The dialog buttons do not
>>> have enough padding between them and the dialog frame.
>>
>> How can I add the spacing to the frame ? I attempted to put everything
>> in a wxBoxSizer giving it a border of 12, but it did't make any
>> difference. What is the trick to get this going in wxformbuilder ?
>
> I bet you are testing on wxGTK? My very limited playing with wxWidgets
> has shown horrible layout on wxGTK, even though it may be fine on
> wxWin32. Qt has proven to work much better in that regard.
>
> To the actual issue, it would be fine to place button lower edge on the
> same level as preview area lower edge and also line with right hand edge
> of the description box etc.

I'll try fiddle with it a bit. In this case this is mostly because I
don't know anything
about wxWidgets yet, still in the process of learning what is possible.

>
> Kicad is full of wonky dialogs, but I would put some of the blame on the
> tools, not the workmanship.
>
> Hey, did I already say you component chooser is _brilliant_!

Thanks, glad you like it.

>
> -Vesa
>
>
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