Re: TreeView problems

[John K Luebs <jkluebs luebsphoto com>]

On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:54:18AM -0700, Mike Oliphant wrote:
> 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?

I think you're looking for an expand property on GtkTreeViewColumn?
This was added to CVS after the 2.2 release.

> 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.

A min_width of -1 for the first column should take care of this.
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