Re: Solved: How to make a gtktreeview column flexible?

[Thomas Dybdahl Ahle <lobais gmail com>]

On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 12:16 +0100, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> Am Samstag 26 April 2008 schrieb Thomas Dybdahl Ahle:
> > Interesting, and that make the text eclipse correctly as well?
> You have to enable ellipsize seperately of course, but then yes, once 
> the window is not wide enough the text in the "flexible" column is being
> ellipsized nicely.

And the trick was setting expand(True). Interesting. In my code I use a
listener on the size-request signal, to change the fixed width of the
column.

> Till
>
> > On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 11:16 +0100, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > in have solved this problem. Here's the answer for reference:
> > >
> > > Instead of using gtk_tree_view_insert_column_with_attributes to insert
> > > a column, one might use seperate calls to  gtk_tree_view_column_new_with_attributes
> > > and gtk_tree_view_insert_column as this give us an explicit reference to
> > > the column. Thus one can use gtk_tree_view_column_set_expand(TRUE)
> > > on that column and voila ... the column scales nicely with the window width.
> > >
> > > Till
> > >
> > > Am Freitag 25 April 2008 schrieb Till Harbaum / Lists:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > i have a gtktreeview filling the complete width of a window. Now i want the 
> > > > view to always use the full width. I therefore want the middle column (a text
> > > > column) to be flexible. I want it to be as wide as possible for any given window
> > > > width. So if you make the window wider i want this column to become wider.
> > > >
> > > > If i just enable ellipsis in the columns text renderer the column gets very 
> > > > small and only a fraction of the window width is used. If i make it a fixed 
> > > > width it's exactly that: fixed width.
> > > >
> > > > How do i make the column always use a much space as possible but never
> > > > more than available?
> > > >
> > > > Till
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Best Regards,
Med Venlig Hilsen,
Thomas