Re: Getting started...

[Tristan Van Berkom <vantr touchtunes com>]

Hi there...
        Since I'm blocking on a really tough bug right now
I'll take a break and give you a pointer.

If you look up Object Hierarchy in the api reference page
you'll see which objects inherit from which other objects;
for example:

        GtkVBox inherits from
        GtkBox  which inherits from
        GtkContainer which inherits from
        GtkWidget 
        etc untill the GObject.

        if you want to know what a GtkVBox can do ... well it can do everything
        its parents can do.

        GtkVBox *box;
        /* ... */

        gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(box), GTK_WIDGET(pizza));


        // this should set your minimum size
       gtk_widget_set_size_request(GTK_WIDGET(box), width, height);


Cheers and welcome!
        -Tristan


Thomas Cameron wrote:
> Evan,
>
> Thanks for the answer.  As I drew it out, the answer was obvious.
> Again, thanks.  Now, is there any way to tell the boxes what their
> minimum size should be?  What about a min/max size for the button.  I'll
> look it up in the API reference, but I don't think I saw any size
> attributes for h/vboxes.  Thanks!



> Tom Cameron
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Evan Martin [mailto:martine cs washington edu]
> Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:24 PM
> To: Thomas Cameron
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Getting started...
>
> Thomas Cameron wrote:
> > The Navigation button, and status area will both be the same hight.
> > The
> > button will be to the left of the status area.  I suppose my question
> > would be which container to use?  What kind of frame, box, etc. can I
> > use, and tell it to only be so tall?
>
> Put the button and the status area into an hbox, the first with
> expand/fill = FALSE and the second with TRUE.
>
> Then put the main display and that hbox into a vbox, with expand/fill =
> TRUE for the main display and FALSE for the hbox.
>
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