[haiku-commits] Re: haiku: hrev44760 - src/kits/interface headers/os/interface src/kits
- From: John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <haiku-commits@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 08:15:48 -0500
> 09d87d9: The text control is now more flexible with its layout items.
>
> * Before, you had to have both, the text view layout item, and the label
> layout item or else nothing would ever be visible.
> * Now you can only create the text view item, and it will still work.
> * Also, no matter the order you added the layout items, they would always
> put the label on the left, and the control to the right.
> * You can place the label and text view layout items anywhere now, although
> you should keep in mind that the view spans over their frame unions; IOW
> they should always adjacent to each other, but not necessarily horizontally
> and left to right.
> * No longer uses a fixed label spacing, but utilizes
> BControlLook::DefaultLabelSpacing() instead.
> * However, the spacing is always added to the right of the label, no matter
> how you place it in the layout. Maybe one wants to add a
> SetLabelTextViewGap()
> like method.
This seems like it could be useful for adding support for right-to-left
languages like Arabic and Hebrew. I was thinking that in some of my own designs
I've used separate labels and controls but I should replace them with a
combined label and control so that someday the label can be automatically
displayed to the right if the control for those languages.
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