RE: radio button size

["Boncek, John" <jboncek Hunter COM>]

Yes, I can change the packing properties, but I need smaller buttons.
I've tried various combinations of the things you suggested but the actual
button, the round area which contains the dot to show whether it's
selected, doesn't change size.  What controls the size of the actual round
button?  Is that immutable?  I even tried using gtk_widget_modify_font
with various font sizes on the buttons in case the font controls the size,
but again, no change.

-----Original Message-----
From: gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org
[mailto:gtk-app-devel-list-bounces gnome org] On Behalf Of Tristan Van
Berkom
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 1:45 PM
To: Boncek, John
Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
Subject: Re: radio button size

Boncek, John wrote:
> I'm creating a set of radio buttons using gtk_radio_button_new, etc.,
> without labels attached to the buttons.  How do you control the size of
a
> radio button?  (I need smaller buttons.)  I've tried
> gtk_widget_set_size_request, but that seems to control the area in which
> the button displays, with the button itself being truncated without
> changing size.

     Usualy in a GTK+ interface you are working with a relative
size/coordinate system (because you want your application to be
resizable, run on many different desktops and still look relatively
the same everywhere), the size allocated to a button is decided
by the parenting widget using child properties ("packing properties").

setting the "width-request"/"height-request" widget properties
(i.e. using gtk_widget_set_size_request() ) will ensure that the
widget in question will never be smaller than "w/h".

packing properties vary across containers, see for example the
"expand", "fill" and "padding" child properties of the GtkBox
container:

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkBox.html#GtkBox--expand

Cheers,
                                   -Tristan

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