Re: [gtk-list] Re: Maximum possible text widget size / set_usize()value

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Christoph Ender wrote:
> 
> In this special case, I really want to scroll the text widget. I'd like to
> display an email message with its attachments. Body and attachments should
> get a widget of their own - one widget for display text, another one for
> images and so on. That's what the vbox is for, to place the attachments
> below the text.
> 
> I've already tried to put the text widget in a layout container, since
> this appears to be the only one that can have a size > 32767. But if I try
> to set the text widget to a size > 32767 via gtk_widget_set_usize(), it
> will not display with the desired size, but much smaller - maybe 200
> pixels high. Is it possible for the text widget itself to have a size >
> 32767 or is the layout container the only widget that breaks this barrier?
> 

What you're trying to do is not going to work well (plus it's going to use
an awful lot of RAM). All widgets have the 32767 size limit; that's
because the maximum size of an X window is 32767. Some widgets create the
illusion of infinite area by keeping the widget small and changing its
contents - GtkLayout, GtkCList, GnomeCanvas, etc. all do this.

So I'd either rework your interface or look into writing a custom widget,
or using something like GtkMozilla.

Havoc