Hi, 2009/1/14 Pietro Battiston <too...@email.it>: > > the documentation for gtk_widget_size_request () says: > > "Also remember that the size request is not necessarily the size a > widget will actually be allocated." > > While there may be a lot of reasons why a widget doesn't get the area > requested, I imagine(d) the basic one would be "because there is not > enough space on the screen for everyone". > > Instead, size_requests are indeed fulfilled at cost of greating a window > much bigger than the screen. Then, I frankly don't see the point of > set_size_request (but I understand why it's very rarely used!).
The size request should be called the "minimum size" but is only called size request for historical reasons. What you want is gtk_window_set_default_size() perhaps. Or gtk_window_resize(), or gtk_window_fullscreen()/gtk_window_maximize() perhaps. Havoc _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
