Re: setting maximum window size

[Nick Soffe <nick soffe bioch ox ac uk>]

Thanks Shaun,
I missed that one! Just what I wanted.
Nick Soffe



On 17 Jun 2003, Shaun McCance wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 04:44, Nick Soffe wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I would like to restrict the maximum width of the top level window in an
> > application I've written for gtk2.x. I don't want to prevent the user from
> > resizing altogether. The window contains various resizable widgets
> > including a drawingarea on which I've set the minimum size with a
> > gtk_widget_set_size_request. Sorry if this is well known but after
> > searching the docs I'm still unsure of the correct way to achieve this
> > under gtk2.x.
>
> Try something like:
>
> GdkGeometry geometry;
> geometry.max_width = my_maximum_width;
> geometry.max_height = G_MAX_SHORT;
> gtk_window_set_geometry_hints (GTK_WINDOW (my_window),
>                                NULL,
>                                &geometry,
>                                GDK_HINT_MAX_SIZE);
>
> --
> Shaun
>
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