[Glade-users] Size of window and other

[Damon Chaplin]

On Tue, 2001-08-21 at 15:02, Huang, Mike wrote:
> Hello, fellow Glade users,
> 
> I'm new to Glade. I'm running RH7.1 and Gnome with Glade 0.5.9. I created an
> application having a window (full screen), and then used panes to divide it
> into several areas with desired sizes. In those areas, I laid down some
> other widgets. Built and saved it. Opened a terminal and ran autogen.sh/make
> and executed the application. What I got was a small window and with the
> resized panes. I'm just wondering is there any way to have a full screen (or
> whatever I designed) and my original designed areas' sizes after the
> execution? Basically, I want a full size window, and on top of that, put
> widgets wherever I want them to be at. For the second part, I figured that
> fixed position or panes should do the trick but run into the re-sized pane
> problem. I posted the same question before, and someone suggested my Glade
> installation might be buggy. But the problem persists with new installation.
> I believe I may not use Glade appropriately. Can someone help me with this.
> Also, please suggest Glade related web sites, books/tutorials. Thanks.

If you select the toplevel windows, they have default width & height
properties that you can set.

In GTK+ you try to avoid setting widget sizes explicitly, since if the
app is translated into another language (French/German etc.) the text
may not fit.

Instead, you usually set the width & height properties of widgets that
you want to have a minimum size. You then set the default size of the
window.

Damon