Re: geometry hints screwing up window sizes

["David J. Andruczyk" <djandruczyk yahoo com>]

I used some things from yours and now things work as I
intended, thanks!.

I suspect it was due to showing the window BEFORE the
hints/resize had been applied which was causing my
confusion..


--- David Neèas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 05:03:48PM -0700, David J.
> Andruczyk wrote:
> > I have an app that creates a window.  inside this
> > window is an eventbox and inside that is a
> GtkFixed
> > (no slapping me for using a GtkFixed, it works
> well
> > for this purpose)
> >
> > I want to be a be able to scale the window to ANY
> > size. (yes i know the fixed widget doesn't handle
> > scaling, I plan on handling that once i can sort
> out
> > the resizing problems)
> >
> > I've used gtk_window_set_geometry_hints to set the
> > aspect ratio, and minimum size.  The problem is 
> the
> > windows ALWAYS default displays at the minimum
> size.
> > NOT at a size I specify using (gtk_window_resize)
> or
> > similar.
> > If I do NOT set the minimum geometry hint. I CAN
> set
> > the size to be larger than the Fixed widget (with
> its
> > children).
> >
> > All I want to be able to do is tell GTK/window
> manager
> >  that there's a window that can be no smaller than
> > 100x100 and no larger than 1000x1000, and I want
> ot be
> > able ot set the size to any point in between those
> > extremes. (GTK ignores me, when using the hints)
> >
> > any ideas?
>
> Where exactly is the problem?  This works flawlessly
> for me:
===========================================================
> #include <gtk/gtk.h>
> #include <gdk/gdkkeysyms.h>
>
> static gboolean
> key_press(GtkWidget *widget,
>           GdkEventKey *event)
> {
>     if (event->keyval >= GDK_0 && event->keyval <=
> GDK_9) {
>         gint size = 60*(event->keyval - GDK_0 + 1);
>
>         gtk_window_resize(GTK_WINDOW(widget), size,
> size);
>         return TRUE;
>     }
>     return FALSE;
> }
>
> int
> main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     GtkWidget *window, *fixed, *widget;
>     GdkGeometry geometry = { 60, 60, 600, 600, 0, 0,
> 0, 0, 0.0, 0.0, 0 };
>     gint i;
>
>     gtk_init(&argc, &argv);
>     window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
>
>     fixed = gtk_fixed_new();
>     gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER(window), fixed);
>
>     for (i = 0; i < 33; i++) {
>         widget = gtk_label_new("Bloody");
>         gtk_fixed_put(GTK_FIXED(fixed), widget,
>                       g_random_int_range(0, 560),
> g_random_int_range(0, 590));
>     }
>
>    
> gtk_window_set_geometry_hints(GTK_WINDOW(window),
> NULL, &geometry,
>                                   GDK_HINT_MIN_SIZE
> | GDK_HINT_MAX_SIZE);
>     gtk_window_set_default_size(GTK_WINDOW(window),
> 300, 300);
>     g_signal_connect(window, "destroy",
> G_CALLBACK(gtk_main_quit), NULL);
>     g_signal_connect(window, "key-press-event",
> G_CALLBACK(key_press), NULL);
>
>     g_print("Press 0-9 to resize me.\n");
>
>     gtk_widget_show_all(window);
>     gtk_main();
>
>     return 0;
> }
===========================================================
> Yeti
>
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-- David J. Andruczyk


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