Re: Setting panes sizes

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Hugo Varotto <hvarotto@cs.pitt.edu> writes:

> Hi to all,
> 
> I'm trying to use the horizontal and vertical paned window widgets. I've
> followed the examples of the tutorial, and I also tried to use GLADE,
> but no matter what I tried, I couldn't find a well explanation of how to
> set up either the minimun or initial size of the panes. Most of these
> panes contain a scrolled window and either a CTree or a Text widget
> inside. I found that by fixing the size of the scrolled window, i can
> somehow control the size of the pane ( but in the case of a vertical
> pane, only works in the upper pane ( sometimes I want to fix or set up
> initially the size of the lower pane and make the upper to occupy the
> rest ). Are there any functions that will control the size of the panes
> ?
> 
> I'll appreciate any help regarding this. My application looks very silly
> when it starts and everything is somehow dislocated ( I know, the panes
> are supposed to be resizable, but at least initially they should display
> some significant information, not hid it almost all ).

 http://www.gtk.org/rdp/gtk/gtkpaned.html

To try out different packing parameters live, see the 
"panes" example in testgtk.

Regards,
                                        Owen