Re: Making GtkTreeViewColumn shrink as other columns to it's left grow.

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 18:54 -0400, kcirtap lavabit com wrote:
> Hi, I've got a few resizable GtkTreeViewColumns, a column that has it's
> "expand" property set as TRUE, and finally a column that isn't resizable.
> 
> I'd like to make it so that making one of the resizable columns larger (by
> manually resizing it) forces the "expand" column to the right of said
> column-being-resized to shrink accordingly. Kind of like what happens when
> I manually shrink the GtkPaned that the GtkTreeView with these columns is
> packed into.
> 
> Right now, when I make one of the resizable columns larger, it simply
> makes the GtkTreeView wider (and causes the scrolled window it's in to
> show it's horizontal scroll bar) and the columns to the right of the
> column being resized do not shrink.
> 
> Is this possible? I've tried a few different things, none seem to work...
> perhaps I missed something in the API docs?

I'm pretty sure GtkTreeView doesn't do this, which is one of the
reasons that both Evolution and Banshee implemented their own
tree view widgets.

--
Shaun