Re: Widget choice / top level window resizing

[David NeÄas <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 09:28:01AM +1100, Matthew Allen wrote:
> The code I'm porting to Gtk has all it's own layout systems in place
> anyway and I want to bypass using Gtk layout to get something working
> quickly. At the moment I can get a basic window showing on the screen
> with an appropriate set of child widgets using GtkFixed, however the
> main window is then "stuck" at the initial size that I created it at,
> i.e. I can't resize it smaller, because all the Widgets have a minimum
> size as specified by gtk_widget_size_request. I'm new to Gtk :)

At least the container widget has to *not* request a fixed size,
whatever its children do.

A better alternative to GtkFixed might be GtkLayout but, generally, if
you want a specialized container you will have to write it.  Or consider
using Gtk's packing containers because fixed position based layouts
tend to break when anything in the app or the envitionment changes.

Yeti