[Glade-users] vbox in scrolled window...

Damon Chaplin damon@helixcode.com
Fri, 06 Oct 2000 14:43:00 +0100


"James K. Wiggs" wrote:
> 
>  Folks,
> 
>    I have a fairly complex input GUI that I've built, which consists of a
> top-level GtkVBox filled with a bunch of nested frames, vboxes, hboxes,
> and assorted entry and button widgets.  The whole thing is supposed to go
> inside a page of a notebook, and to try to keep the overall size of the
> window reasonable, I've nested it inside a scrolled window.  The problem
> is that the scrolled window doesn't "scroll".  The vertical scrolling was
> set to "Always" and the horizontal to "Automatic" when I built the thing
> in Glade, but when I compile and run the app, what I get is a scrolled
> window which acts like it is showing all of its contents (the adjust bar
> is the same height as the window) but in fact only about half of the GUI
> is actually visible.  I have to expand the window in the y-direction to
> get the entire GUI visible.  What's up?  The Glade-produced code for this
> window is several thousand lines, so I'm obviously not going to post it
> unless it's absolutely necessary.  Given the information I *have*
> provided, can anyone suggest possible causes of this behavior?  I can post
> code snippets, etc., if requested...

If you gzip the XML file and send it to me I'll have a look.

(You do have a GtkViewport inside the scrolled window, don't you?)

Damon