TreeView problems

[Mike Oliphant <oliphant mp3 com>]

A free copy (no make that two!) of Grip for Gnome2 to anyone who can 
help me with the following problems.
I've got a simple, three-column TreeView from a GktListStore. When the 
app is resized, I want the first column to expand while the second and 
third columns stay fixed size.
Even if I make the second and third colums fixed width (doing both 
'set_sizing' and 'set_fixed_width') the third colum gets expanded when 
the app is resized. The documentation indicates that this will happen, 
but it makes my app look silly (the third column is a simple checkbox 
selection, while the first column  has variable-sized text that could 
use the extra room). Any way I can work around this behavior?
Secondly, I want the first column to start a fixed size, regardless of 
the contents of the data in the list store. However, I also want to to 
be able to expand (either by the user resizing the column, or by the app 
being resized). As far as I can tell, the only way to make the column 
smaller that the size of the largest element is to set a fixed width or 
a max width, which interferes with resizing.
I'm at my wits end with this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mike

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Mike Oliphant                                      oliphant mp3 com