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NAME

PostScript::Report::VBox - Hold components in a vertical column

VERSION

This document describes version 0.04 of PostScript::Report::VBox, released November 30, 2013 as part of PostScript-Report version 0.13.

DESCRIPTION

This Container draws its children in a vertical column. There is no space between children. If the children are of different widths, they are all left aligned.

ATTRIBUTES

A VBox has all the normal container attributes.

During layout calculations, a VBox temporarily sets its height to its row_height (so that its children will inherit that value). After the children have done their layout calculations, any child without an explicit height has its height set to the VBox's row_height.

If height is not specified, then the VBox's height is set to the sum of the heights of the child components. If the VBox did have an explicit height, then it is restored after the children have completed their layout calculations.

If width is not specified, but any child has an explicit width, then the VBox's width is set to the width of the widest such child. Otherwise, the width remains unset.

If you specify a height that is more than the sum of the children's heights, the extra space will appear at the bottom of the box.

If you specify a height that is less than the sum of the children's heights, the children will overflow the bottom of the box, which may lead to components printing on top of each other.

INCOMPATIBILITIES

None reported.

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No bugs have been reported.

AUTHOR

Christopher J. Madsen <perl AT cjmweb.net>

Please report any bugs or feature requests to <bug-PostScript-Report AT rt.cpan.org> or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Report.html?Queue=PostScript-Report.

You can follow or contribute to PostScript-Report's development at https://github.com/madsen/postscript-report.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I'd like to thank Micro Technology Services, Inc. http://www.mitsi.com, who sponsored development of PostScript-Report, and fREW Schmidt, who recommended me for the job. It wouldn't have happened without them.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2013 by Christopher J. Madsen.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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