Re: Issues with iconview

[ofey aikon <ofey aikon gmail com>]

On 1/30/06, muppet <scott asofyet org> wrote:
> IconView is a natively-scrollable widget.  As such, it typically
> takes as much space as it is given, and appears to request only some
> minimal amount.  You're adding the IconView to a box and then adding
> the box to a ScrolledWindow with a viewport.  Is that really what you
> want?  If this works correctly, it will cause the labels to scroll
> with the IconView, which tends to be rather disorienting.

That actually is the behaviour that I am seeking. I am trying to cook
up a photo manager app and I want the right side pane in that to
behave like what picasa does. Right side pane will show each
photogroup with a header-label and a list of thumbnails under them. I
want all of these sets to be in a scrolledwindow and when I scroll,
the label along with the thumbnails should scroll to show the next
photogroup. I am using iconview for the thumbnail set.

> If that layout is really what you want, you can get the viewport to
> behave as expected by giving a size request to the icon view (e.g.,
> $iconview->set_size_request (100, 400)), but this then requires you
> to come up with some numbers.

Is there anyway to "turn off" the native scrolling ? If
$iconview->set_size_request is the only way to go, any tricks on how I
can figure out the correct values of size , for example by knowing the
size and count of the thumbnails ?

Thanks,

_Ofey.