Re: Getting the width and height of a widget in gtk+-1.2

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 12:12:23AM -0600, Nix wrote:
> I have a dynamic list(VBox, really) of checkboxes which gets filled in
> before the dialog box pops up.  I want to measure the width and height
> of the checkboxes, then cause the width of the dialog box to become such
> that the scrollwindow and the viewport can accomodate the widest
> checkbox without a horizontal scrollbar.  I would like to do this
> (preferably) before the dialog box becomes visible, so the user doesn't
> experience a jerk when it pops up.

For this purpose, you want to call gtk_widget_size_request() on your
check boxes. That gets the size that they will ask for.

To get the actual size of a widget at any given time, look 
at widget->allocation; but the checkboxes may not have their
allocation before you show the window.

Havoc