Re: GtkTextView sizing

[Gary Benson <gary inauspicious org>]

On 20 Mar 2002, Havoc Pennington wrote:
 
> Gary Benson <gary inauspicious org> writes:   
>
> > When you start the program, and don't touch anything, item 4 should be
> > wider, since it can be. I'd like for items 2 and 3 to have stretched
> > out the window so they weren't wrapped. Also, if you click in item one
> > and start typing, it scrolls itself so that parts of itself are
> > hidden.
>
> Without getting into the big picture, the reason you get scrolling is
> that the text view's vertical size request exceeds its allocation.
> Which means you need to be sure it gets the whole vertical size
> request.

Yeah, I was wondering if there is any way to override this behaviour.

> > Can anyone suggest how I might fix this, or do I need to rethink what
> > I want it to do?
>
> To make this app nice I really think you need a custom widget for the
> outline, rather than a lot of oddly juxtaposed prebuilt widgets. But
> of course it'll be a lot more challenging and time-consuming to
> implement that way. Just an editorial comment...

That's a shame, since I really wanted to build on GtkTextView (and avoid 
having to write an entire text editor!). Do you think I'll be unable to do 
what I want with collections of pre-existing widgets?

Cheers,
Gary

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