Nesting Boxes

Suppose you want to form a layout something like this:

You should be able to visualise this as consisting of three components stacked into a vertical box.  The top one is a horizontal box of buttons, and the bottom one is the status line.  The middle component is a horizontal box of two components, the left one being a vertical box of tools.  Here is a program that's puts all this together, still using just buttons (a couple of them are increased in size, though).

This is rough and ready.  To fine tune box layouts, use a combination of library and tutorial documentation, e.g.:

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