Re: aligning widgets

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Timothy Flechtner <Timothy Flechtner tellabs com> writes:  
>   i'm trying to create a table, and supply it with headers, one per column.
>   for the life of me, i can't figure out how to 
>   get the header width and the column width to match.  created an hbox and
>   packed a bunch for frames containing labels
>   in to it for the headers, then created a scrolled window, in which i put
> my
>   table.  when i try to take the width of each frame in
>   the headers box, it invariably comes back as 1, which leads me to believe
>   it hasn't been set yet.  i was hoping to use that
>   to set the width of each cell in the table in the same column as that
>   header.
> 

Your head-banging is caused by trying to mix automatic layout
management with positioning stuff yourself.

If you want to do all the work, just stick it all in a GtkFixed. To
get the size of a widget in that case, use gtk_widget_size_request().

Normally to have headers for a table, I'd just put the headers into
the first row of the table itself though.

Havoc