Re: Fixing size of window containing 2 buttons

[Jeffrey Barish <jeff_barish earthlink net>]

Allin Cottrell wrote:

> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> 
>> I am just starting with GTK, so no doubt I am missing something
>> basic.  I have a window with a buttonbox with 2 buttons.  I use
>> size_allocate on the buttons to position them.  One of the
>> buttons starts hidden...
> 
> It may be possible to get that to work right, but why do you want
> to do it?  It's surely making life more difficult.  Why not make
> the "not yet" button disabled (gtk_widget_set_sensitive()) until
> it becomes relevant?
> 
> Allin Cottrell

There are actually 2 buttons that can occupy the blank space -- I simplified
the description of the problem -- so it isn't clear which one to display
disabled.  It's less confusing to display nothing until the state dictates
which button is appropriate.

Since posting my original message, I tried catching configure-event.  The
width specified in the event is also correct.  So where is the width
actually being set if not in size-request or configure-event?

The documentation for set_size_request says that the method sets the minimum
size of a widget to the values specified by width and height.  That's what
I want.  Why isn't it doing that?
-- 
Jeffrey Barish