[Tickit-dev] H/VBox running out of space

[Paul LeoNerd Evans]

The current behaviour of HBox and VBox when given a window smaller than
the minimum size requirements of its children is analogous to that when
it's bigger; the shortfall in columns/rows is distributed among the
child widgets in proportion to the 'expand' setting given by each. If
there's still a shortfall, widgets from the right/bottom start being
truncated or omitted altogether.

I'm wondering - is this sufficient? Should there be more intelligent
behaviours in place? Perhaps in such circumstances as an HBox being used
to implement a status bar, some widgets could be deemed less important
than others; to be omitted entirely if this then gives the remaining a
full allocation of size.

What might the API for this look like? Is it sufficiently useful to put
in the plain HBox/VBox, or would a more custom "StatusBar" widget be
better for this one?

-- 
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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