Re: gtktextarea w/wordwrap: how to shrink the width?

[Jeffrey Evarts <riventree earthlink net>]

Josh N Pritikin was kind enough to reply to my email:

> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 06:12:50PM -0700, Jeffrey Evarts wrote:
>
> > My application contains a GtkTable which holds a GtkTextArea.
> > I have the wrap on the textarea set to wordwrap.
> >
> >
> > When I expand the window (via the windowmanager) all is well.
> > (The text layout gets called, and the words roll up from later
> > lines to earlier ones as there is room on the prior lines.)
> >
> > But when I go to shrink the window (via the windowmanager) the
> > app "refuses" to shrink the textarea in such a way that lines
> > would be broken in new places. (It will shrink so long as I am
> > only removing whitespace from the end of the longest line)
> >
> > Putting the textarea in a scrolled window "solved" the problem
> > by letting the main window shrink, but then text was off the
> > scrolled area to the right, rather than getting laid out again,
> > using more vertical space to make up for the lost horizontal
> > space.
>
>
> Did you set the width-request property of the textview?

Width-request is for the initial size, yes? As specified in the
paragraph above, this is upon shrinking via the windowmanager,
after the object is already drawn. If I am misunderstanding,
please let me know.


> > The text area is a status window. I would like it to resize
> > along with the rest of the table on the horizontal axis,
> > laying out the text using more vertical space as needed,
> > then add a vertical scrollbar when it's too big to fit.
> > (Scrollbar part is easy using a scrolled window)
> >
> > It seems like I see text windows like this in a fair number
> > of applications, but I can't figure out how people are
> > doing it.
I would very much appreciate ANY additional responses to this
question.

-Jeff Evarts