Gtk2::VButtonBox(3)

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💖 Gtk2::VButtonBox 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to Gtk2::VButtonBox — it's a wrapper for GtkVButtonBox, and it's literally the thing you want when you need your buttons stacked vertically instead of all side-by-side like some kind of horizontal chaos gremlin. it's part of the perl docs that live under "User Contributed Perl Documentation", and yeah it's a (3) man page, so you know it's library-coded. 🎀

✨ HIERARCHY ✨

the family tree, and yes it's giving royalty — look at all those ancestors:

Glib::Object
+----Glib::InitiallyUnowned
     +----Gtk2::Object
          +----Gtk2::Widget
               +----Gtk2::Container
                    +----Gtk2::Box
                         +----Gtk2::ButtonBox
                              +----Gtk2::VButtonBox

like, that's a lineage. Gtk2::VButtonBox is at the bottom but honestly it's the main character. 👑

🌈 INTERFACES 🌈

these are the vibes it carries around with it:

  • Glib::Object::_Unregistered::AtkImplementorIface
  • Gtk2::Buildable
  • Gtk2::Orientable

💅 METHODS 💅

here's where the actual doing-stuff happens. no cap.

  • widget = Gtk2::VButtonBox->new — makes you a brand new Gtk2::VButtonBox widget. fresh out the box, literally. ✨
  • buttonboxstyle = Gtk2::VButtonBox->get_layout_default — hands you back the default layout, as a Gtk2::ButtonBoxStyle. it's a class method thing, it's asking the class what its default is. 🫶
  • Gtk2::VButtonBox->set_layout_default ($layout) — sets that default layout. takes one arg:
    • $layout — a Gtk2::ButtonBoxStyle (go look at the enum section below, bestie, it's right there 💖)
  • integer = Gtk2::VButtonBox->get_layout_default... okay no wait, it's integer = Gtk2::VButtonBox->get_spacing_default — returns the default spacing as a plain old integer. 😌
  • Gtk2::VButtonBox->set_spacing_default ($spacing) — sets the default spacing. takes one arg:
    • $spacing — an integer
ngl, get_layout_default / set_layout_default and get_spacing_default / set_spacing_default are all about the class defaults, not about one specific widget. so like, think of them as setting the vibe for everybody. 🌸

🎀 ENUMS AND FLAGS 🎀

enum Gtk2::ButtonBoxStyle

every option, and I mean every option:

  • 'default-style' / 'GTK_BUTTONBOX_DEFAULT_STYLE'
  • 'spread' / 'GTK_BUTTONBOX_SPREAD'
  • 'edge' / 'GTK_BUTTONBOX_EDGE'
  • 'start' / 'GTK_BUTTONBOX_START'
  • 'end' / 'GTK_BUTTONBOX_END'
  • 'center' / 'GTK_BUTTONBOX_CENTER'

(one name is the perl-ish string, the other is the C constant, and they're the same thing in different outfits. slay. 💅)

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

go read these too, they're all connected, iykyk:

  • Gtk2
  • Glib::Object
  • Glib::InitiallyUnowned
  • Gtk2::Object
  • Gtk2::Widget
  • Gtk2::Container
  • Gtk2::Box
  • Gtk2::ButtonBox

Copyright (C) 2003-2011 by the gtk2-perl team.

This software is licensed under the LGPL. See Gtk2 for a full notice.

okay that's the whole page, bestie, you ate that 💖✨🦋🌸

this was perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25, and it lives at Gtk2::VButtonBox(3). periodt. 🎀💜

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