Ensemble Graphics Toolkit: Exercise Solution 1

Exercise 1

Use the EGT documentation and change the widget width.

Increase the width to twice the widget’s old width.
Set the widget height to 70.

The screen will look like this:

Observe the widget (button) X and Y coordinates are printed on the terminal console.

Solution

//----------------------------------------
//
// widgets.cpp
//
// Ensemble Graphics Toolkit - Exercise 1
// 
//----------------------------------------

#include <egt/ui>
#include <iostream>

using namespace std;
using namespace egt;

int main(int argc, const char ** argv)
{
  Application app;
  TopWindow window;
  Button button(window, "Press Me");

//  center(button);
//  button.align(AlignFlag::center | AlignFlag::left);

  button.move(Point(300,300));
  cout << "X:" << button.x() << " Y:" << button.y() << endl;

  //change widget width and height
  button.width(button.width()*2);
  button.height(70);
  cout << "width:" << button.width() << " height:" << button.height() << endl;

  window.show();
  return app.run();
}

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