Layout Options for Widgets

[JobJob]

Is there any way to control where widgets will appear when displaying more than one of them? E.g. say I wanted to have multiple checkboxes side by side. They seem to stack vertically by default. Something like hstack in Gadfly would be great. I guess this is somewhat related to #38 which I also would very much like to see.

Would be happy to have a bash at it but not sure really where to start.

Ta!

[shashi]

Hey this is something I'm trying to address via Canvas. I'll update here when you can use it.

[JobJob]

Legend! Cheers.

[ma-laforge]

Just a general comment:

Interact almost needs to be able to provide a similar level of control over layout that toolkits like GTK+ provide if we (users) are to start building notebooks of moderate complexity.

I am starting to use ~half a dozen controls, and it is already quite difficult to keep everyting on one screen & easy for the user to understand.

...the problem is probably how one provides that level of control while maintaining the ease of use that Interact currently achieves.

[JobJob]

The PR linked above has hbox and vbox which I think should be a good start.

Also on master as of this week you have slider(...; orientation="vertical")

[JobJob]

@ma-laforge You can try it easily btw with

Pkg.checkout("Interact", "jbj/hbox-vbox")
#then e.g.
hbox( slider(1:10), vbox(slider(11:20), checkbox()))

Would be good to get your feedback.

[ma-laforge]

Excellent. I will probably want to use it in the near future.

[JobJob]

Ok good. This is now on master, would be great if you can try it out and let us know how it works for you.