Re: hscale width with value_pos = GTK_POS_RIGHT

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Oliver Rauch <oliver rauch rauch-domain de> writes:
> I want to create several hscales, packed vertically.
>
> I define the width of the hscales with
> gtk_widget_set_size_request(scale, 201, -1)
>
> When I set gtk_scale_set_value_pos(GTK_SCALE(scale), GTK_POS_TOP)
> then all the scales have the same width. But this builds to
> high widows. So I would like to use GTK_POS_RIGHT instead.
>
> But then gtk_widget_set_size_request(scale, 201, -1) defines
> the width of scale + value and because the value ranges
> and representations of the values (number of digits) are
> different the scales itself have different withs what looks
> bad.
>
> I would prefer that the scales all have the same width,
> is there a way to make the scales look common with GTK_POS_RIGHT?

The best way of doing this I can think of is to disable the 
scale value label (set_show_value or something?) and then just have
your own labels that watch the values. GTK_POS_RIGHT is sort of
useless in many cases for this reason.

Havoc