Re: gtkdialog maximum size

[Rúben Rodrigues <ruben_gr live com pt>]

Thanks. I don't solved my other problem yet. I leave the problem with 
two dialog for other time. But using GtkScrolledWindow i resolved this 
problem.

Why are you saying that using a scrolled window with parts invisible is 
not user frindly?

Best regards,

Ruben


Às 11:16 de 13/09/2017, Stefan Salewski escreveu:
> On Wed, 2017-09-13 at 10:59 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> > Why are you using a GtkDialog? You should be using a GtkWindow for a
> > complex UI.
> >
> > Additionally, the size of a top-level is given by its contents,
> > unless
> > you specify a size yourself. If your UI is too big, you'll have to
> > arrange it differently.
> For a plain Window he may use of course a GtkScrolledWindow. I am not
> sure if that would work for a dialog too, but I think so.
>
> But of course a scrolled window with parts invisible is not really user
> friendly...
>
> Ruben, what do you expect when contents do not fit onto screen? And
> have you solved your other problem with the two dialogs following each
> other? I have seen a long reply of somebody to your question -- did
> that helped you?
>
> Next question may be how to detect that content is too large for
> screen, and how to shrink content. Maybe check allocation for window
> first. And when larger than screen, maybe reduce text size, widget size
> or hide some widgets.


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