Re: HTML window width--always just too small!

[hitched97 <hitched97 myrealbox com>]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001 16:54:54, Pawel Salek wrote:
>  On 2001.10.13 15:19 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
>>  Every time an HTML part is displayed in my setup, it's always rendered
>>  for a window that's a fraction wider than the one it appears in, so it
>>  has a horizontal scroll bar at the bottom. If I resize the window and
>>  rerender, it adjusts to the new size, but still seems to overestimate
>>  the window width.  Does anyone else see this, and can anyone help me fix
>>  my setup to avoid it?
>
>  The problem is more complicated and seen by everybody, I believe.

Yes, I see it as well.  Quite annoying.  I've noticed, though, that the
larger I make my balsa window, the less wrong the size of the GtkHTML
widget is.

>  The problem is, the "size_request" signal _seems_ to have different
>  semantics for gtkhtml widget (different than for example gtktext). I tried
>  to trace calls to  balsa_gtk_html_size_request() but I have impression it
>  is necessary to have a look at gtkhtml handling of this signal as well.
>
>  One can  remove following line from balsa_gtk_html_size_request()
>
>  requisition->width += GTK_LAYOUT(widget)->hadjustment->upper;
>
>  to make the gtkhtml widget adjust to the preview size more often - but
>  when it contains elements of size bigger than the preview window, the
>  scrollbar will not be shown.

I did a really bad hack - I scale the size of the widget down by 10%.
I added this to the end of balsa_gtk_html_size_request():

     requisition->width  = (requisition->width*90)/100;


This seems to stop the oversized html widget.

And no, I'm not suggesting releasing balsa with this in it.
Just for anyone as annoyed as me by the mis-sized widget.

-- 
Steve Wall