[Glade-users] Re: Shrinking entry boxes?



Hiya,

I am not sure I understand the quesiton because I have a couple of
solution that seem quite easy.

...

GtkWidget * combo = gtk_combo_new();
...
gtk_widget_set_usize(GTK_WIDGET(combo), someWidth, someHeight);
...

Or in glade use the basic tab on the propperties pallte and set the combo
to have x and y of whatever it is you want.

You might need to set the checkboxes on the height and width fields on.
I am not sure you can do this withh all contianers, but my Combos ar eon
Fixeds and I can do it this way.

regards
jason


On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, James K. Wiggs wrote:


 Good day, Folks;

   I'm busy building input GUIs for an application I'm working on,
and I'm using a lot of GtkComboBox widgets for text and numerical
inputs.  I've been building the base code using Glade and then
modifying it to use some of my internal functions to create/edit
the contents of the combolists.  My question is this: how do I
force these boxes to shrink down to a reasonable size?  Even if I
set the parameters in Glade for expand and fill to false, they
end up being anywhere from 2 to 5 times as large as they need to
be for the input values they contain.  A combo box with an input
list whose longest value is perhaps 6-7 characters will end up
large enough to hold over 20 characters.  Combo boxes that contain
only integer values ranging up to 200 or so will *still* be about
20 characters wide, even though only 3-4 are needed.  Is there
some way to manually force these things to only be N characters or
perhaps N pixels wide?  Or does GTK+'s internal size allocations
code preclude this, short of using a Layout widget?

   Many thanks for any suggestions.

best,
Jim Wiggs
wiggs wiggs org


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