Re: How to find the exact size a button is going to get?

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 09:36 +0200, Toralf Lund wrote:
> varun shrivastava wrote:
> > you can access GtkAllocation structure which stores the x, y, width 
> > and height allocated to a widget
> That will (only) give me the size of an existing widget, won't it?
> 
> Not what I'm looking for; as I was saying, I want to know what size a 
> widget will have without actually creating it. Or differently put, I'd 
> like to know the "rules" for margins/borders that are drawn around a 
> widget I add to a button.

gtk_widget_size_request() is your friend.