RE: lining up headers with fields

["Dugas, Alan" <alan dugas analog com>]

Hmm... you might want to look at the GtkCList widget.  It sounds like it
will do exactly what your trying to do for you.  Hope this helps.



                                -- Stupid Genius

> ----------
> From:         Timothy Flechtner[SMTP:tflecht tellabs com]
> Sent:         Monday, February 12, 2001 12:25 PM
> To:   gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject:      lining up headers with fields
>
> hello all,
>   i'm trying to create a table with headers at the top for each column. 
> i'm pretty darn new to all of this, and i'm having trouble getting the
> columns of the table to be the same size as their headers.  i created the
> header row as a hbox (which i'll now call the header box) with a bunch of
> frames containing labels packed inside. i then pack this header box in to
> a
> vbox. after that, i created a scrolled window, in which i put my table.  i
> then also packed this scrolled window in to that same vbox.
>   now i think what i need to do is set each column of the table's width to
> the width of the corresponding frame in the header box.  i only know that
> frame's width after it is shown, so i execute a show_all after i build the
> header box, then go grab the width values for each frame.  i suspect this
> is not the right approach, so if anyone could suggest a better one i would
> be really greatfull.  anyway, as i was saying :), i now start building the
> table.  i set each widget's width that i attach to the width of that
> column's header frame.  only it doesn't quite seem to work.  the fields in
> the table end up being slightly larger than the headers.  i've tried
> setting both the header box and table columns spacing to 0, but that
> didn't
> help.  after i do all this, and show my (misaligned) table, i went through
> and got the width values again, and they match, so there must be padding
> or
> something being inserted somewhere, right?
>
> help! (and thanks :) ),
> -tim
>
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