Re: GtkTextView - blank space at the bottom of the window

[Philip Bunce <pjb carmel com>]

At 05:41 PM 3/27/2002 -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> Philip Bunce <pjb carmel com> writes:
> > I am creating a GtkTextView using the following code...
> >
> > sw = gtk_scrolled_window_new(NULL, NULL);
> > gtk_scrolled_window_set_policy (GTK_SCROLLED_WINDOW (sw),
> >                  GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC,
> >                  GTK_POLICY_NEVER);
> > sailview.view.text = gtk_text_view_new ();
> > sailview.view.buffer = gtk_text_view_get_buffer (
> >         GTK_TEXT_VIEW (sailview.view.text));
> > gtk_text_view_set_wrap_mode (GTK_TEXT_VIEW (sailview.view.text),
> >                              GTK_WRAP_NONE);
> >
> > Notice that I have noscroll in the y axis
> > The problem I am having is that when I write to this window (via the buffer) the window always expands to 
> > slightly
> > more than it needs to in order to display the text. The extra amount seems to be approximately 33 pixels 
> > in the y axis
> > when using "Courier 13", and no, my text does not have a trailing '\n' or '\r'.
> >
> > Can anyone help?
> > I would like the last line of text to be right at the bottom of the
> > window.
>
> Suggest writing a small, compilable test program, and put it in
> bugzilla.gnome.org, I can look at it at some point. I'm not sure
> offhand what's going wrong.
>
> > In perhaps a related question. I would like to be able to use the
> > mouse to resize the window. I have that working for expanding the
> > window height, but it won't let me reduce the height. I was planning
> > to use the allocate event to rewrite the text in the buffer with
> > just the right amount (just like I do when expanding the window
> > height). But there seems to be no way to do this since GTK won't let
> > me use the mouse to shrink the window.
>
> You can't shrink below the size request. So you need to reduce the
> size request. gtk_widget_set_size_request() is the brute-force
> mechanism for that.

Ok. But how do I know when a user is trying to shrink the window? The allocate event
doesn't get generated until the user releases the mouse button. Is there another
event that I could use to issue a gtk_widget_set_size_request()?





> Havoc

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