On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Martin Sevior wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Does lists dialog still uses fixed sizes and positions of widgets?
> > > > > This makes it looking weird with rather big bold font.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > No it doesn't. Consequently it resizes whenever the internals of the
> > > > dialog change. I think this is rather disconcerting. Is there some way to
> > > > specify a minimum size to gtk elements? Of course I'd want the dialog to
> > > > be able to expand for large fonts too.
> > >
> > > Last time I looked at it it even has fixed size for buttons "apply" and
> > > "close" - that's why I'm curious.
> > > What widget do you want to specify minimum size for? I think only drawing
> > > area, yes? (If not, then something wrong with design of the dialog IMO).
> > >
> >
> > I would like to set a minimum size for the entire dialog and the frame
> > containing the customize information. When you change between
> > say "numbered list" and "bullet" the dialog shrinks and expends whenyou go
> > the other way.
>
> Of course there is a way to do this. Just measure the strings to be shown in
> OptionMenu, set the widget's width to that + some constant via
> gtk_widget_set_usize(w,width,-1)
> As for minimum size of dialog - gtk will figure it out itself (if you've set
> minimum size of drawing area). When the user presses "customize", dialog will
> resize automatically.
> IMO this should work.
It DOES work. I just don't like it. I don't like the dialog changing size
as I change options. That was why I went with fixed sizes to begin with.
Martin
