Re: New member to list - Make a window non-resizable

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

On 3/28/07, Joaquim Duran <joaquinduran adtelecom es> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> My name is Joaquim Duran. I'm a computer programmer from AD Telecom
> (www.adtelecom.es). Currently I'm developing an embedded system using Gtkmm.
>
> I'm interested to show a window (GTK::Window) of fixed size (480 x 800)
> while moving some pictures in the window. Some time, the images should
> be clipped because part of them should be dawn outside of the window
> limits, but the behavior of gtkmm is resize the window to show all picture.
>
> In the constructor of main window I've included the following line:
>
> resize(480, 800);
> set_resizable(false);
> property_allow_grow () = false;
> property_allow_shrink () = false;
>
> however they haven't provided the behavior that I was interested.
> Is there any way to force a window to be fixed size?
>
>
> Thanks and Best Regards,
> Joaquim Duran

Gtk::Widget::set_size_request() [1] might do what you want to do.
Another possibility might be to wrap everything in a ScrolledWindow so
that when the content becomes bigger than 480x800, you just get
scrollbars instead of causing the window to resize.

[1] http://gtkmm.org/docs/gtkmm-2.4/docs/reference/html/classGtk_1_1Widget.html#5e95431f630a226b0b7297e4815ee945
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jonner