Re: widget packing question

[David Odin <David dindinx org>]

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 12:54:29PM -0400, drl22 cornell edu wrote:
> Hi,
> I am writing an applciation with a main window layout that looks 
> something like this:
>
> +------------------------+---------+
> |                        | Buttons |
> |    +--------------+    |  over   |
> |    | Drawing      |    |  here   |
> |    | area         |    |         |
> |    +--------------+    |         |
> |                        |         |
> +------------------------+         |
> | Status bar             |         |
> +------------------------+---------+
>
> What I've done is to put an hbox in the window, with an expand=fill=true vbox
> on the left and an expand=fill=false vbox on the right.  Then when I pack the
> drawing area into the left vbox, I set expand=true, fill=false, but it
> still fills in the horizontal direction... 
>
> I want the drawing area to expand but NOT to fill in both directions. 
> Basically I want it to be centered on the enclosing container, without
> automatically resizing. 
>
> What's the best way to do this?  I also was wondering how I can know when 
> the available space for the drawing area changes, without automatically 
> resizing it.  Could I do this by connecting the "size_allocate" signal to 
> the left vbox?
  Imho, the easiest way to achieve this is to include the drawing area
  into an alignment (GtkAlignment).

    HTH,

        DindinX

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David dindinx org