Re: Setting size of SpinButton

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On 31 Jan 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> 
> Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu> writes:
>> I'm looking at a SpinButton that goes from -100.0 to 100.0, and the
>> Entry field turns out too small -- when you're at -10.0 or below, the
>> digits get cut off.  From the spinbutton example in the tutorial, I just
>> see the gtk_widget_set_usize, which is not friendly to different fonts
>> etc.  Is there a way I can say 'This spinbutton should be large enough
>> to accommodate "-100.0"'?
>> 
> 
> Not really, though we have a bug filed to implement that for 2.0. At
> the moment you would need to get gdk_string_width() for -100.0 using
> widget->style->font.

Thanks, that sounds like a reasonable solution.  Curiously, I have to
multiply the width I get with 1.5 to get one that actually works.

-Lars

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