On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 2:49 PM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'll try that and see what happens, my fear is that the menu field
will still take up the full available width instead of just taking up
the amount of room needed to display the text, i.e. the menu field
will still be behave as it is in fixed-size mode rather than auto-size
mode.
That would be the whole point of the glue. Initially the layout
manager tries to use the preferred size of each control in the row,
then whatever extra space is left over is distributed across the
controls based on weighting. Since in this case the menu field was by
itself in that row, it got the entire horizontal space allotted to it.
Glue deals with that by implicitly expanding to take over whatever
void is left. If anyone more well-versed in the internals of the
layout kit is reading, and I'm off on some of the details, please let
me know.
