Hi,
I have what is I'm sure is a fairly simple question.
I have a dialog box created with
window = gtk_dialog_new();
Then I create a table containing a bunch of label widgets and stick it
in the window with
gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (GTK_DIALOG (window)->vbox),
table, TRUE, TRUE, 0);
The problem I have is I have is that on some of these dialogs, the table
is quite long and you end up with a window that is taller than the
screen. The dialogs with smaller tables look great though.
So, I changed the code a bit and added scrollbars. So now I do
something like:
scrolled_window = gtk_scrolled_window_new (NULL, NULL);
gtk_container_set_border_width (GTK_CONTAINER (scrolled_window), 10);
gtk_scrolled_window_set_policy (GTK_SCROLLED_WINDOW (scrolled_window),
GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC, GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC);
table = gtk_table_new(0,0,FALSE);
/* create and add a bunch of label widgets to the table */
[snip]
/* create and add gridlines */
item=gtk_hseparator_new();
gtk_table_attach(GTK_TABLE(table),item,0,7,0,1,
GTK_FILL, GTK_FILL,1,1);
[snip - lots more h and v separators added]
/* put the table in the scrolled window */
gtk_scrolled_window_add_with_viewport(
GTK_SCROLLED_WINDOW (scrolled_window), table);
gtk_widget_show_all(scrolled_window);
And finally I stick this scrolled_window into my dialog box in the
same way that I used to put the table in.
The problem I have now is the dialog boxes always come up very small, a
tiny fraction of my screen size, and I always have to manually enlarge
them before they are remotely useful. The scroll bars a a big help on
the table which had lots of rows.
So my question is how to tell this dialog box, 'make your self big
enough to avoid scroll bars unless you would be larger than [display
size, some fixed size, something...] in which case just use the max
allowed size'.
I played around with gtk_widget_set_usize, but it makes the smaller
tables ugly.
Suggestions?
Thanks!
-Dan
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