Re: newbie: increasing size of widgets

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Wednesday, October 29, 2003, at 07:51 AM, David Sword wrote:

> How do I increase the size of the scrolledwindow/simplelist so that it
> shows more of the simplelist?

the simplest way is to ask the window to be bigger, with  
set_default_size().  if you set things up correctly and the scrolled  
window will expand to fill the available space, then this is what you  
want.

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWindow.html#gtk-window- 
set-default-size

the discussion explains some of the options and caveats.

another way would be to use set_size_request()  
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget- 
set-size-request on the scrolled window, but that would mean the user  
couldn't shrink the window beyond that size.

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