Re: Getting window size (correctly)

[Chas Owens <cowens intercall com>]

On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 07:07, bcorr wrote:
> I am having trouble with getting the window size using the following code:
>
> $widgets->{'ephemeral'}->show_all();
> my @args = $widgets->{'ephemeral'}->window->get_geometry();
> print join " ", @args, "\n";
>
> Where 'ephemeral' is a Window containing a ScrolledWindow containing a Text
> widget.
>
>
> When this is run I get the following reported :
>
> 0 0 200 200 8
>
> 200 x 200, being the width and height. Unfortunately this is wrong. 
>
> I added a callback to report the same data if I press a key in the window,
> this gives me the correct dimensions (i.e the ones I set using 'usize').
>
> I have tried doing a main_iteration while events_pending type wait just in
> case something was out od sync, but it still makes no difference.
>
> I have also tried ->get_toplevel->window->get_geometry(); and get_size();
>
> Anyone got any ideas?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Bill.
>
> PS I am using Gtk Perl 0.7008 on CDE/Solaris. 

Try 

my ($width, $height) = ($widgets->{'ephemeral'}->allocation())[2,3];

instead.

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