How to set initial size of TextView?

[Chris Green <cl isbd net>]

I have a top level window in which I have five or six TextView text
entry fields. I want to be able to set the fields to different sizes,
at least initially.  E.g. I have a couple of TextView fields that I
want to be just two lines high, two which should be four lines high
and one that needs to be five lines.

How should one do this?  I want this to work on different displays so
setting sizes of the widgets (or containing widgets) in pixels won't
work will it?

Is there no way to set a TextView's initial size to a specified number
of lines?  They may well get put inside ScrolledWindow widgets but I
can't see a way to set the default initial size of those either.

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Chris Green
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