Re: GTK tables

[Tristan Van Berkom <tvb gnome org>]

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 4:42 AM, David Buchan <pdbuchan yahoo com> wrote:
> I've created a table with Glade and put various widgets in some of the cells.
>
> Ifin one particular rowI have: a label,a text entry, and finally a few cells that I don't need to put 
> anything into, should I place blank labels in those last unused cells, or just leave them unspecified? 
> Would there be different behavior?

Which version of Glade are you using ?

Glade >= 3.10 should be using a GtkGrid (as would be appropriate for
GTK+ >= 3.0).

> Other rows in the table use cells in those last few columns, so the table does need to be that wide.

Glade's UI for tables/grids display placeholder widgets to allow the
user to add widgets to the
table/grid, it of course does not show how the table will appear accurately.

However there is a preview function which displays the widgets more
accurately (select
the table or it's toplevel and activate the "Preview snapshot" context
menu item, or
the tool item which also appears in the toolbar).

FWIW, the table/grid widget's, (as long as 'homogeneous' is not set on
the table/grid), will
distribute space to the children based on the requested size of a row
(or column) collectively.

If you have a widget in the last column of a given row, you don't need
to add anything else
in other rows, the table will require enough width to fit the widget
in the last column of a
given row (but really, try the preview feature, that will show you
accurately what the
table would look like when loaded in your application with GtkBuilder).

Hope this helps.

Cheers,
            -Tristan