Re: H and V Paned

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Steve & Patti Getzinger <steveandpatti@wubs.org> writes:
>   I have a question whose answer has completely eluded me. What I want
> to do is create 3 panes side by side horizontally (across the screen
> from left to right). My desired is that they open at a set size (no
> problem) and can size down to a min setting (no problem) but now here is
> where my problem comes in. I want end user to be able to utilize to
> widen these panes. If I manually widen the left pane the right one goes
> off the window to the right (shoved by the center). If the window is
> maximized results are unpredictable. Here is what I would like:
> 
> User maxs the window the left and right stay at width they were set to
> either by the user or by the opening settings with preference to user
> settings and only the center area grows in width.
> 
> Same for shrinking the window but in reverse
> 
> When the left pane is adjusted for width it grows/shrinks only the
> center section is affected. Same for the right which appears to be doing
> that by default.
> 
> Any ideas on what direction I should be looking in?
> 

I would solve this problem by writing a custom container (probably
based on GtkPaned code) with triple panes. In fact someone may have
written the widget already, if you look around on the net a
bit. Looking at the GtkPaned source code and e.g. the GtkObject and
custom widget chapters in my book
(http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD) should be enough to figure out
how to do this, it's not that hard.

Havoc