[Glade-users] Re: Shrinking entry boxes?

[Jason Tan]

Hiya,

I am not sure I understand the quesiton because I have a couple of
solution that seem quite easy.

...

GtkWidget * combo = gtk_combo_new();
...
gtk_widget_set_usize(GTK_WIDGET(combo), someWidth, someHeight);
...

Or in glade use the basic tab on the propperties pallte and set the combo
to have x and y of whatever it is you want.

You might need to set the checkboxes on the height and width fields on.
I am not sure you can do this withh all contianers, but my Combos ar eon
Fixeds and I can do it this way.

regards
jason


On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, James K. Wiggs wrote:

> 
>  Good day, Folks;
> 
>    I'm busy building input GUIs for an application I'm working on,
> and I'm using a lot of GtkComboBox widgets for text and numerical
> inputs.  I've been building the base code using Glade and then
> modifying it to use some of my internal functions to create/edit
> the contents of the combolists.  My question is this: how do I
> force these boxes to shrink down to a reasonable size?  Even if I
> set the parameters in Glade for expand and fill to false, they
> end up being anywhere from 2 to 5 times as large as they need to
> be for the input values they contain.  A combo box with an input
> list whose longest value is perhaps 6-7 characters will end up
> large enough to hold over 20 characters.  Combo boxes that contain
> only integer values ranging up to 200 or so will *still* be about
> 20 characters wide, even though only 3-4 are needed.  Is there
> some way to manually force these things to only be N characters or
> perhaps N pixels wide?  Or does GTK+'s internal size allocations
> code preclude this, short of using a Layout widget?
> 
>    Many thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> best,
> Jim Wiggs
> wiggs@wiggs.org
> 
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