Re: GtkSpinButton Patch

["James M. Cape" <jcape jcinteractive com>]

Donald Ryan Willhoit wrote:
> 
> I sent this a while ago, but it probably got lost.  Anyway it makes the
> SpinButton control's size request seem more reasonable.  Try it out - it
> should insure that the largest and smallest numbers the spin button can
> have always fit in the spin button.  This would be really important if
> someone changes the font size.
> 
> If this is better behaviour and reasonable for inclusion in say 1.4, I'll
> also write the support for GtkText, GtkEntry, GtkLabel, GtkCombo and
> whatever else I can find that is broken in this respect.
> 
> Ryan Willhoit
> willhoit@andrew.cmu.edu

You might be interested to know that in the proportional width fonts I
have looked at (Helvetica being the most usefull in this case), four is
the widest number, so if you use that instead of a zero, it may produce
a more acurate size at large font sizes than a zero/eight/minus combo.

    Jim Cape
    http://www.jcinteractive.com

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