On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 19:41 -0800, Chris MacGregor wrote: > On 02/05/2008 05:21 PM, Paul Davis wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 16:36 -0800, Chris MacGregor wrote: > >> Thanks, but those functions don't account for the space occupied by > >> things like panels. Any suggestions for how to deal with that? (That was > >> the question I was trying to ask.) > > > > that wouldn't be a part of GTK, but would part of GNOME. GTK is useful > > on systems without panels, with panels, with permanent (almost) top > > level menus, etc etc etc. you can even use GTK on a system without any > > window manager ... > > Does GTK not have any way of knowing how big a window will be when maximized? > Should I be asking this question on a GNOME list? Is there simply no > portable way of doing this?
my "portable" way to do it is to ask how big the window is *after* the change has taken place, rather than try to guess ahead of time. This is particularly important when you want differentiate between "fullscreen" and "maximized", which are not necessarily equivalent. > Perhaps this is information that GTK *SHOULD* make available to apps - part > of > the point is to hide the system-dependent hassles from the app, right? the information you want to hide is not part of the windowing system (X11, win32/GDI, quartz), its part of the desktop system (GNOME, KDE, Cocoa+WM etc). GTK itself is a widget toolkit; GNOME provides lots of cool libraries (as does KDE and others) to interact with the desktop system. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
