Re: about widget sizes

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Didimo Emilio Grimaldo Tunon <emilio_tunon@nl.compuware.com> writes:

>  I have a nagging and probably silly question, that is, is it really
>  necessary to specify a widget size with gtk_*_usize() or will it
>  resize automatically as children are added to it? This applies to
>  the Notebook and List widgets.
> 
>  The reason is, if I have several notebook tabs I would like the tab
>  widget to be big enough (automatically) to hold the tab with the
>  most children.

The only widgets you typically need to specify a usize widgets
for are those that can't determine a good default size because
their children are within a scrolled area - things like
the Text, CList and ScrolledWindow widgets. Otherwise, GTK+
will figure things out for itself.

Regards,
                                        Owen