Re: How to find the exact size a button is going to get?

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

varun shrivastava wrote:
> you can access GtkAllocation structure which stores the x, y, width 
> and height allocated to a widget
That will (only) give me the size of an existing widget, won't it?

Not what I'm looking for; as I was saying, I want to know what size a 
widget will have without actually creating it. Or differently put, I'd 
like to know the "rules" for margins/borders that are drawn around a 
widget I add to a button.

- Toralf

> widget->allocation.x
> widget->allocation.y
> widget->allocation.width
> widget->allocation.height
>
> bye
> varun
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com 
> <mailto:toralf procaptura com>> wrote:
>
>     For various technical reasons I won't go into right now, one of my Gtk
>     apps need to know what size certain buttons it is going to create will
>     get, before it actually creates them. Is there any way at all I can
>     calculate this? The buttons will contain pixmaps, and I have the image
>     data for those, so I actually know the size of the "contents" of the
>     buttons, but the total size of a button is somewhat larger as
>     (apparently) borders are always added,  so how do I find the size of
>     these?  The border associated with the "border-width" property is not
>     the one I want, I think, but rather extra borders that magically
>     appear
>     based on the the style or theme or I don't know what.
>
>     Help, anyone?
>
>     - Toralf
>
>
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