Class:: Layout
summary:: Superclass of all GUI layouts
categories:: GUI>Layout
related:: Classes/HLayout, Classes/VLayout, Classes/GridLayout, Classes/StackLayout, Guides/GUI-Layout-Management

description::
Layout is the abstract superclass of all layouts. Any layout can be installed on a view with the view's link::Classes/View#-layout#'layout':: setter method. See link::Guides/GUI-Layout-Management:: for details of operation common to all layouts.


InstanceMethods::

Method:: spacing
The amount of empty pixels left between the managed views.

argument:: spacing
An integer representing the spacing in pixels.


Method:: margins
The amount of empty pixels left between the edges of the parent view and the managed children.

argument:: margins
An array of four integers defining margins in the following order: left margin, top margin, right margin, bottom margin; or an array of two integers applied to left/right margin and top/bottom margin respectively; or a single integer applied to all margins.



Examples::

code::
w = Window.new;
w.layout = HLayout( TextView().string_("One"), TextView().string_("Two") );
w.layout.spacing = 20;
w.layout.margins = [10, 30, 10, 30];
w.front;
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