Re: Widget's Fixed Size??

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

On Sat, 2006-01-07 at 21:34 -0500, jalqadir netscape net wrote:
>  Is there a way to make a Gtk::Entry widget to have a fixed size? How
> do I do this?

any_widget.set_size_request (width_pixels, height_pixels);

width_pixels or height_pixels can be -1 to leave that dimension "unset".

but its generally a bad idea to do this without some knowledge of font
dimensions, hence you really want something more like:

void
Gtkmm2ext::set_size_request_to_display_given_text (Gtk::Widget &w, const
gchar *text,
						   gint hpadding, gint vpadding)

{
	int height = 0;
	int width = 0;

	w.ensure_style ();
	w.create_pango_layout(text)->get_pixel_size (width, height);

	height += vpadding;
	width += hpadding;

	w.set_size_request(width, height);
}