Placing Gtk.Widget in Box with top padding

Question

I have a box like this:

import gi
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository import Gtk
[...]
box_outer = Gtk.Box(orientation=Gtk.Orientation.VERTICAL, spacing=0)
box_outer.pack_start(Gtk.Label('Label1'), False, False, 100)
box_outer.pack_start(Gtk.Label('Label2'), False, False, 0)

I want the first label to be 100 pixels from the top. The second label should be directly under it. As I found out, the padding parameter always sets the padding for all four directions. How can I set it for only one direction?

By the way, the fourth parameter specifies *spacing* not padding — charlie, Jun 23 '19 at 16:07

charlie · Accepted Answer · 2019-06-23T16:05:17.020

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Use Widget.set_margin_top() for margin (instead of padding or spacing) at the top of a widget.

https://lazka.github.io/pgi-docs/#Gtk-3.0/classes/Widget.html#Gtk.Widget.set_margin_top

So instead of

box_outer.pack_start(Gtk.Label('Label1'), False, False, 100)

you'd use

label = Gtk.Label('Label1')
label.set_margin_top(100)
box_outer.pack_start(label, False, False, 0)

edited Jun 23 '19 at 16:05

answered Jun 23 '19 at 15:59

charlie

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Glad, I found this. The opposite is `label.set_margin_bottom(100)` – Erich Kuester Feb 18 '21 at 18:25

Placing Gtk.Widget in Box with top padding

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