Fwd: Resizing window

["Fernando Apesteguía" <fernando apesteguia gmail com>]

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From: Iago Rubio <iago iagorubio com>
Date: Aug 22, 2006 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: Resizing window
To: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 11:54 +0200, Iago Rubio wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 09:22 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> > I'm still looking for a solution. My app has internationalization
support.
> > So make the window fixed is not possible in order to allow all the
different
> > messages to fit in the window. I'll read more documentation.
> >
> > More ideas?
>
> Have you tried to pick the child's requisition and resize the window to
> it ?
>
> Try out the example attached.

Sorry, the attachment didn't make it.


// gcc test.c -o test `pkg-config --cflags --libs gtk+-2.0`
#include <gtk/gtk.h>

void
on_notebook_switch_page (GtkNotebook     *notebook,
                         GtkNotebookPage *page,
                         guint            page_num,
                         gpointer         user_data)
{
 GtkWidget *child;
 GtkRequisition requisition;

 child = gtk_notebook_get_nth_page       (notebook,
                                          page_num);

 // pick the child's requisition
 gtk_widget_size_request (child, &requisition);

 // The "+10" stuff below is used because we're not taking
 // into account the frame's width.
 gtk_window_resize  (GTK_WINDOW(user_data),
                     requisition.width + 10,
                     requisition.height + 10);
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
 GtkWidget *window, *window_vbox;
 GtkWidget *notebook, *small_label, *big_label;

 gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

 window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
 window_vbox = gtk_vbox_new (FALSE, 0);
 gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER(window), window_vbox);
 gtk_widget_show (window_vbox);

 notebook = gtk_notebook_new  ();
 gtk_widget_show (notebook);
 gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (window_vbox), notebook, TRUE, TRUE, 0);


 small_label = gtk_label_new ("Small label");
 gtk_widget_show (small_label);
 gtk_notebook_append_page (GTK_NOTEBOOK(notebook),
                           small_label,
                           NULL);

 big_label = gtk_label_new (
         "T H I S   I S  A  B I G G E R    L A B E L"
 );
 gtk_widget_show (big_label);
 gtk_notebook_append_page (GTK_NOTEBOOK(notebook),
                           big_label,
                           NULL);

 g_signal_connect ( notebook,
          "switch-page",
          G_CALLBACK(on_notebook_switch_page),
          window );

 g_signal_connect_swapped ( window,
              "delete_event",
              gtk_main_quit,
              NULL );
 // force it to be smaller than it ought to be
 gtk_widget_set_size_request (GTK_WIDGET(window), 100, 50);
 gtk_widget_show (window);
 gtk_main ();

 return 0;
}

--
Iago Rubio


Many thanks Iago. I'll try it when I can get a bit of time.

Best regards