Re: GTK Table resizing...

[Matt Gerginski <mattgerg users sourceforge net>]

On 12 Apr 2001 20:20:27 -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Matt Gerginski <mattgerg users sourceforge net> writes:
> > Hi.  In my program, I am using a GTK Table.  One of the childrem widgets
> > is a GTK Label.  Here is my problem;  When the label is changed, if it
> > is too big to fit in the table cell, it will resize the table in order
> > to fit.  I've tried (without any luck) many combinations of GTK_FILL,
> > GTK_EXPAND, and GTK_SHRINK.  Is there another way to stop a table from
> > resizing, or some pattern of the GtkAttachOptions that I havent tried
> > yet??  Idealy, I would like the label to just be chopped off as soon as
> > it exceeds the size of the table cell.  Any help would be appreciated.
>
> The attach flags only affect size allocation, not size request.
>
> If you call gtk_widget_set_usize() on the label, you can keep it from
> requesting more size than the usize. That might work.
>
> Havoc
This could work.  However, I'd like to not use widget_set_usize() only
because if someone had a different font size, it would not be right.  Is
there some way I could get the size of the cell before I put the label
into it, and then use gtk_widget_set_usize() with that number??  That
would be good if I could do that somehow.  Thanks.

--mattgerg