[Glade-devel] Glade and Custom widgets

[Damon Chaplin]

No, you don't need to do that.

If your widget can calculate its own width & height exactly, it should
do that in the normal size_request/size_allocate class methods, e.g. see
gtklabel.c. You don't need to set the width/height in Glade in this
case.

If your widget is something like a GtkTreeView, where the width & height
is set by the application, you set the Width/Height on the Common tab to
a reasonable *minimum* width/height, and then set the dialog's default
width/height properties to a reasonable default size for the entire
dialog. That way the user can resize the dialog as appropriate.

Damon


On Wed, 2004-08-25 at 04:49, Todd Fisher wrote:
> Just doing some more digging and was curious if maybe this means it 
> necessary to create register properties in the common tab via 
> glade_register_custom_prop?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -todd
> 
> > Hi,
> >    I'm developing an application using libglade-2.4.  I'm working on a 
> > custom widget and am having difficulty understand how libglade handles 
> > custom widgets and height/width_request under the properties tab 
> > common.  Should my widget recieve a width_request?
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > todd