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= Theory of Packing Boxes
Most packing is done by creating boxes. These are invisible widget containers that we can pack our widgets into
which come in two forms, a horizontal box, and a vertical box.
When packing widgets into a horizontal box, the objects are inserted horizontally from left to right or right to
left depending on the method used.
In a vertical box, widgets are packed from top to bottom or vice versa. You may use any combination of boxes inside
or beside other boxes to create the desired effect.
To create a new horizontal box, we use Gtk::HBox.new, and for vertical boxes, Gtk::VBox.new.
The Gtk::Box#pack_start and Gtk::Box#pack_end methods are used to place objects inside of these containers.
The Gtk::Box#pack_start method will start at the top and work its way down in a vbox, and pack left to right in an
hbox. Gtk::Box#pack_end will do the opposite, packing from bottom to top in a vbox, and right to left in an hbox.
Using these methods allows us to right justify or left justify our widgets and may be mixed in any way to achieve
the desired effect.
We will use Gtk::Box#pack_start in most of our examples. An object may be another container or a widget. In fact,
many widgets are actually containers themselves, including the button, but we usually only use a label inside a button.
By using these methods, GTK knows where you want to place your widgets so it can do automatic resizing and other
nifty things. There are also a number of options as to how your widgets should be packed. As you can imagine, this
method gives us a quite a bit of flexibility when placing and creating widgets.