Re: Scale Gtk::Image

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Fri, 2009-06-26 at 17:44 +0200, Daniel Elstner wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 26.06.2009, 09:47 +0200 schrieb Dimitri Holz:
> > I'm doing a small program how show photos or make presentation of many
> > photos and it should scale Gtk::Image to the size of window. For showing
> > photos I use Gtk::Image, but I can't find a way to scaling it.
> 
> I think it will normally be just as large as the image it shows.  If you
> want to display a scaled image, then load it into a Gdk::Pixbuf and
> scale that.  I think there is even a method to load and scale an image
> file at the same time.
> 
> Then just tell the Gtk::Image to display your scaled Gdk::Pixbuf.

This is what I do in Glom:
http://git.gnome.org/cgit/glom/tree/glom/utility_widgets/imageglom.cc#n292

I call that scale() method in my expose_event handler.

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