Re: Gnome HPaned Position.

[Andrew Schretter <schrett math duke edu>]

I've had luck with using the allocation function of widgets...

$child1Width = ${$childElement->allocation()}[2];
$child1Height = ${$childElement->allocation()}[3];

It returns a list so I'm just grabbing one item from it.

Andrew

On Mar 11,2002 10:14:55 -0500, Derek Wueppelmann <monkey monkey homeip net> 
wrote : 
> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 03:32, Pavel Rousnak wrote:
> > > Is there a way to get the Position of the slide bar from a HPaned window
> > > once it is created? I've just started using the GTKPerl bindings and
> > > I've come across this small snag.
> > As I know, by default the position of the separator is computed according to 
> > requisitions of its children.  I don't know the explicit way to get the 
> > position but I guess it's possible to calculate it (more or less exactly :) 
> > from allocations of the children. 
>
> And exampel would be good. I tried this and the width of the children
> for this element seem to always report at -1. How should I get the size
> of the children then? I was trying to do this
>
> $child1Width = $childElement->width();
> print "Width: $child1Width\n";
>
> which gives:
> Width: -1
>
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Andrew Schretter
Systems Programmer, Duke University
Dept. of Mathematics (919) 660-2866