Re: How to fully expand a widget within a window?

[Samvel <ksamvel gmail com>]

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 01:46:43 -0500, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>  
wrote:

> > However you add widgets to show they are properly and nicely packed in a
> > window. But they are not affected as soon as you start resizing Window.
> > The
> > only remedy I've found is to connect method to signal_check_resize() of
> > the
> > main window:
>
> Widgets should automatically expand to fill available space, when you  
> have
> specified that. You should, for instance, investigate the  
> Gtk::Box::pack()
> parameters.

I do not agree. Gtk::Box::pack() parameters work only for initial packing.  
Once you change window size nothing happens to widgets. They are left in  
exactly the same layout. In order to solve this resize_children() should  
be called while or after resizing.

> Murray Cumming
> murrayc murrayc com
> www.murrayc.com
> www.openismus.com
>
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