Re: hbox with "width"

["Jonathan Winterflood" <jonathan winterflood gmail com>]

On 8/17/07, Gavin Keighren <s9901726 sms ed ac uk> wrote:
> On 17 Aug 2007, at 11:18, Dmitri Hrapof wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > I'd like to insert two widgets into my top level window so that the
> > first widget
> > always occupies, say, 70% of the total width.
> > Like in HTML table with "width" attribute.
> > Is it possible to do this with Glade/hbox properties/Alignment etc.
> > not resorting to "manual" width calculation at run-time?
>
> You could use a GtkTable with 10 columns, then make the first widget
> occupy the first 7, with the second widget taking up the other 3.
>
>
> Gavin Keighren

Neat idea, I didn't find any other way; except gtkPaned maybe (involves
extra coding to lock it)

For the
Table, remember to tell it to keep the cells the same size
(set_homogeneous I beleive)

Jonathan