Re: Shrinking entry boxes?

[Maher Awamy <muhri muhri net>]

Try gtk_widget_set_usize(combo,x,y);

Maher

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000 12:36:43 -0700 (PDT), James K. Wiggs said:

>   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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