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

["Jonathon Jongsma" <jonathon jongsma gmail com>]

On 9/15/06, Samvel <ksamvel gmail com> wrote:
> 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.

I'm not quite sure what you're talking about.  My widgets always
resize with the window if I pack them with the right options, and I've
never called resize_children() in my life.  Maybe you could post a
stripped down example to show when this happens for you.

--
jonner