[maemo-developers] Problems with larger buttons in HButtonBox

[From: James Ferris]

I'm quite new to this, and while I've managed to navigate installation,
basic application building and using Glade to produce interface xml,
I've run into a hitch.

I have a horizontal button box that requests a size of 150x150 for it's
children, and the buttons themselves are set to expand (and to try it,
even set a request of 150x150 for each button) which shows up fine in
Glade, but when I run it in the emulator, each button area is the full
150 by 150 pixels, but the button appearance is that of three and a bit
buttons stacked on top of each other like bricks. 
They expand to fill the 150 width, but not the height. Instead, they
repeat to fill the height.
If I throw one button into the vbox, it will expand to fill the whole
space, but not when I put it into a hbuttonbox inside the vbox.

have tried this from Glade's xml, and from direct coding, and it doesn't
seem to work for me either way.

Thoughts?

Thanks.