Hello monks,

In a Prima application I would like to define a widget which allows to set a bunch of configuration variables. So I have several lines, each consisting of a Prima::Label describing the entry and a Prima::InputLine where users can enter their values.

Is there a decent way to get the InputLine widgets aligned vertically, like in a HTML table?

Counting pixels and specifing the size attribute for the widgets works, sort of, but might break if the text in the Label widgets isn't known in advance, for example when it is pulled from some I18N framework. I would also prefer not to count pixels for the line height, which might differ for different platforms (or fonts).

Any idea or pointer to a code example is welcome!

In reply to Prima: How to get a "table" layout? by haj

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