Re: All button with the same size.

[Tobias <cst081 fusemail com>]

Hi,

Thanks for the response, GtkSizeGroup is a good solution.
It works fine now. Thanks.

Frédéric BRIAND wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm very new here and I've been using Gtk only for a short while.
> Your question reminds me of one of the demo apps provided by the 
> program gtk-demo. It's called "size groups". Here's the copy of the 
> description:
>
> Size Groups
>
> GtkSizeGroup provides a mechanism for grouping a number of widgets 
> together so they all request the same amount of space. This is 
> typically useful when you want a column of widgets to have the same 
> size, but you can't use a GtkTable widget.
> Note that size groups only affect the amount of space requested, not 
> the size that the widgets finally receive. If you want the widgets in 
> a GtkSizeGroup to actually be the same size, you need to pack them in 
> such a way that they get the size they request and not more. For 
> example, if you are packing your widgets into a table, you would not 
> include the GTK_FILL flag.
>
> Hope it helps.
> I'll probably come here very soon, I've a lot of questions too...!
>
>
>
> Danyel Bruggink a écrit :
>
> > The most effective way I've found to do it is to reconfigure your 
> > packing so that you pack all your buttons into the same box and 
> > create your hbox or vbox so that all the widgets in it are the same 
> > size (gtk_vbox_new(TRUE, 0)).
> >
> > When I've been unable to figure out how to pack the window in a way 
> > that works with this, I have figured out how big the largest button 
> > would be doing a get_size_request and used that requisition to set 
> > the size of all the buttons.
> >
> > If other people have other solutions I would love to hear them.
> >
> > Danyel
> >
> > On Thursday 14 October 2004 02:36 pm, Tobias wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > I've a little problem with buttons. The app uses x number of buttons,
> > > the size depends on the content and gtk theme. I would want all the
> > > buttons to be of the same size. I could hardcode
> > > [gtk_widget_set_size_request()] a fixed size for all the buttons, but I
> > > think that it's not a good solution.
> > >
> > > Is there another way to make them of the same size? i.e. the size of 
> > > the
> > > biggest one.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Sorry for my horrible english.
> > >
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