Re: Trouble maximizing windows on MS Windows

[Olivier Sessink <oliviersessink gmail com>]

On 08/27/2012 06:27 AM, Jared Henley wrote:
> I have a Gtk application that needs windows to be maximised at their
> creation.  This is specifically because i) there's a lot of information
> in tables that needs maximisation in order to deal with sensibly, and
> ii) quite a lot of these windows are being opened (and closed) during
> normal use.  (It's a forms-based database app).  I'm using Gtk3 via Python.
>
> So I use the Gtk.Window.maximize() method to maximise a window, and it
> works very well on native X11.  But if I run an X server on a Windows
> machine (XP and 7 tested), the window is not maximised.

possible (not tested) the window has to exist before you can maximize it.

so register an idle callback function with g_idle_add() and maximize the
window in that idle callback and return FALSE.

that way gtk first paints the window on screen, and when done your idle
callback will be called and it will be maximized.

Olivier