Re: Issues with iconview

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Jan 29, 2006, at 2:01 PM, ofey aikon wrote:

> Sorry.. attached the wrong file before :)
>
> On 1/29/06, ofey aikon <ofey aikon gmail com> wrote:
> > In the first one, I am creating a pixbuf from a stock_icon and adding
> > it to an iconview and then adding it to a scrolledwindow. Everything
> > works as expected here.

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.

Why not add the IconView directly to the ScrolledWindow, then place  
the ScrolledWindow in the VBox?

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.


> > In the second one, everything is same except that I create the pixbuf
> > from a jpeg file. This time the scrolledwindow doesn't behave quite
> > well. I don't see the scrollbars. When I expand the window and reduce
> > it, the label "Two" starts hiding the iconview area.

Both examples behave this way for me.




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