[pygtk] Design / Algorythym Question

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Tue, 2012-03-06 at 09:05 -0700, asomers at gmail.com wrote:
> If you pack your widgets into boxes or tables, then they will never
> overlap (unless you're using buggy 3rd party widgets).  Normally, the
> only way to make widgets overlap would be to use a Layout or a Fixed
> to manually place your widgets.  But that's generally a bad idea.  I
> recommend that you read
> http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/ch-PackingWidgets.html and pack
> your widgets into boxes.

I'm very much aware of widget packing.  But having widgets that can be
deliberately dragged around on a surface [Layout] is specifically the
purpose in this case.

> On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 8:14 AM, Adam Tauno Williams
> <awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
> This isn't specifically related to Gtk / PyGtk, but since I'm using
> PyGTK I thought I'd ask it here [it just relates generally to UI
> design].
> If I have a layout that contains widgets [which are rectangles]
> detecting with widgets overlap isn't that hard.  But is there a
> generally accepted scheme / algorthym for redistributing the widgets
> in such a fashion that they no longer overlap and 'feels' intuitive?
> I've seen this behavior in a couple of applications and am curious if
> ther is anything like a 'standard' approach to this issue? [relevant
> links?]


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