Re: new to gtk, how can I limit widgets?

[Michael Ekstrand <mekstran scl ameslab gov>]

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 17:12 -0700, ian baber wrote:
> I'm working on a project using the GTK2 perl package, and I need a  
> way to set absolute limits on a container widget.  The program needs  
> to be able to divide up the screen using several containers, and then  
> hand each of those off to a plugin.  The problem is that I want the  
> containers to ALWAYS remain the same size, regardless of how much or  
> how little the plugin puts in it.  If the children widgets won't fit,  
> they should be truncated/cut off at the edge.

I would look at GtkSizeGroup, and see if it meets your needs.  It
provides a way to force several widgets to all request the same size
(the size of the largest of them is requested by all).

- Michael

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