Re: gtk 2.x problems with labels and auto-resizing

[Ed Sweetman <ed sweetman wmich edu>]

On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 08:29, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Ed Sweetman <ed.sweetman@wmich.edu> writes:
> > in gtk 1.2 the window expands automatically to hold the size of the
> > widgets inside if not specified with usize.  In gtk 2.x this does not
> > happen. The main window seems to not resize for widgets held in vbox's.
> > Also, parts of frames that don't get rendered due to the window not
> > resizing in the horizontal direction, pretty sure this is just due to
> > the lack of any theming engine in gtk 2.x to auto-update.  I have to
> > shade and unshade the window for those parts to be rendered when i
> > stretch the window manually.    
> 
> This works for everyone else AFAIK. Can you provide a small test case?

With some help, figured out it was a nasty set_window_policy function
that was screwing things up in gtk2 but didn't seem to do anything to
gtk1.2.  Anyways that's fixed. 

 
> > Also, pango's example ft2 config file is incompatible with pango. I've
> > got no idea how to fix it.   
> 
> I think ft2 backend now uses the same config format as XftConfig, but
> I'm not really familiar with this area.
> 
> Both the sizing test case and note about ft2 would ideally be in
> bugzilla.gnome.org for tracking.

The ft2 thing remains.  


> Havoc