[Urwid] Align buttons to the border of the screen

[Oscar]

Hi,

I'm new to urwid but alhough I'm following all examples and trying all
the widgets of the reference guide, I can't get two buttons aligned to
the border of the screen. With the following code I get both buttons
centered on the screen:

import urwid
palette = [ ('head','yellow','black'),
('reversed','standout',''),('hola','white','black'),('gg','black','dark
cyan')]

helpa=urwid.Button("help_A")
helpb=urwid.Button("help_B")

everything=urwid.GridFlow((helpa, helpb), 10, 3, 1, "center")
loop = urwid.MainLoop(urwid.Filler(everything),palette)
loop.run()

Current 0utput:


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Thanks in advance!

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Oscar

[Oscar]

Reading the docs I discovered that one of my problems can be solved
using a "Divider" widget between of the buttons.

Now only remains the other problem: How do I "pack" each button so
their width is not the maximum width available but the minimum width
needed to show them OK? I think that what I'm trying to do is convert
them from "box" widget to "fixed" widget but I cannot find a way to do
this in the docs.

Thanks!

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Oscar

Post by Oscar
Hi,
I'm new to urwid but alhough I'm following all examples and trying all
the widgets of the reference guide, I can't get two buttons aligned to
the border of the screen. With the following code I get both buttons
import urwid
palette = [ ('head','yellow','black'),
('reversed','standout',''),('hola','white','black'),('gg','black','dark
cyan')]
helpa=urwid.Button("help_A")
helpb=urwid.Button("help_B")
everything=urwid.GridFlow((helpa, helpb), 10, 3, 1, "center")
loop = urwid.MainLoop(urwid.Filler(everything),palette)
loop.run()
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Thanks in advance!
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Oscar
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[Ian Ward]

Hello,

You can pack the widths of Text widgets with the Columns widget so
that they appear at the far right/left, but Buttons don't currently
support packing IIRC. Try using Columns with given widths for each
button and one column with a Divider in between that will expand to
fill the space.

Ian