Re: Creating dialogs, right-aligning buttons
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- Subject: [mg123949] Re: Creating dialogs, right-aligning buttons
- From: Armand Tamzarian <mike.honeychurch at gmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 02:43:50 -0500 (EST)
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On Jan 1, 6:29 pm, Szabolcs Horv=E1t <szhor... at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the best way to create dialogs and align the different UI
> elements in them?
>
> In particular, how can I create a dialog with right-aligned OK and
> Cancel buttons?
>
> Here's a simplified model of what I'm actually doing:
>
> image = Rasterize@ExampleData[{"AerialImage", "Earth"}]
>
> CreateDialog[
> Column[
> {"Some message here",
> image, (* this is obtained from Rasterize *)
> ChoiceButtons[{"Do it!"}, {doIt[]; DialogReturn[]}]}
> ]
> ]
>
> Problems with this approach:
>
> * How can I right-align the buttons without
> right-aligning all other elements?
>
> * I do not know the size of the image beforehand. It may be
> taller than the screen in my application. In this case
> it will push the buttons off-screen.
> How can I protect against this?
>
> There seem to be many ways to create dialogs in Mathematica. There's
> CreateDialog (shown here), MessageDialog (which makes ugly small buttons
> where there's more than one button, and I'm having problems controlling
> the window size), ChoiceDialog (the buttons return values instead of
> doing something).
>
> Can you show me example code based on the model above, with its problems
> fixed?
>
> --
> Szabolcs Horv=E1t
> Mma QA site proposal:http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/37304
Use Grid for this:
CreateDialog[
Grid[{
{"Some message here"},
{image},
{Item[ChoiceButtons[{"Do it!"}, {doIt[]; DialogReturn[]}],
Alignment -> Right]}
}, Alignment -> {Left, Center}]
]
Mike