[Lazarus] Does using GtkFrame in LCL make sense?

[Max Vlasov]

On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Henry Vermaak <henry.vermaak at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/07/11 15:09, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>
>> On 01/07/11 14:44, Henry Vermaak wrote:
>>>
>>> On 01/07/11 13:17, Max Vlasov wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Trying to solve the problem, I ended up with the following replacement
>>>> in the TGtk2WSCustomPanel.CreateHandle
>>>>
>>>> { -------- Before }
>>>>
>>>> Frame := gtk_frame_new(nil);
>>>> gtk_frame_set_shadow_type(PGtkFrame(Frame),
>>>> BorderStyleShadowMap[TCustomControl(AWinControl).BorderStyle]);
>>>
>>> gtk_container_set_border_width(PGtkContainer(Frame), 0) here seems to
>>> make it better.
>>
>> Actually, it doesn't make a difference. The thing that fooled me is that
>> my panels on debian are bigger than yours on ubuntu.
>
> That said, changing the frame to gtk_alignment_new(0, 0, 1, 1) seems to work
> for me.  What does it look like on Ubuntu?
>

The only problem here is that GtkAlignment has no "shadow" function so
can't respond correctly to the BorderStyle property (both Frame and
ScrollingWindow have). But I suppose in this case it can be just done
with additional custom drawing.

Max