Re: gtk_window_set_geometry_hints woes

[Phil Wolff <adiabat centurylink net>]

Look at using GtkAspectFrame as the first HBox child, and put your game 
board in it.

On 10/24/2014 02:52 PM, Norbert Zeh wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am trying to put together a simple game board window, which packs the
> game board on the left and a button panel on the right.  The top-level
> container within the window is an HBox.  First child of the HBox is the
> game board, second child is a VBox containing all the buttons.  The game
> board is set to occupy the available space as the HBox gets resized.  My
> goal is to ensure that the top-level window can only be resized to shapes
> that ensure the game board has an aspect ratio of 1 (i.e., is a square).
> Now, as I understand the documentation of gtk_window_set_geometry_hints,
> the following should just do this:
>
> GdkGeometry geom;
>
> geom.min_aspect = geom.max_aspect = 1;
> gtk_window_set_geometry_hints(GTK_WINDOW(main_window), board, &geom,
> GDK_HINT_ASPECT);
>
> However, no matter what I do, whether I do the above when the window gets
> created or in response to a "realize" signal, whether I provide board or
> main_window as the second argument, the result is always that the
> main_window itself is constrained to a square aspect ratio, which due to
> the button panel means that the board is not square.  Any pointers as to
> what I'm doing wrong?
>
> I can put the entire code on pastebin if necessary.
>
> Thanks,
> Norbert
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