On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 17:12 -0700, ian baber wrote: > I'm working on a project using the GTK2 perl package, and I need a > way to set absolute limits on a container widget. The program needs > to be able to divide up the screen using several containers, and then > hand each of those off to a plugin. The problem is that I want the > containers to ALWAYS remain the same size, regardless of how much or > how little the plugin puts in it. If the children widgets won't fit, > they should be truncated/cut off at the edge.
I would look at GtkSizeGroup, and see if it meets your needs. It provides a way to force several widgets to all request the same size (the size of the largest of them is requested by all). - Michael -- Michael Ekstrand Research Assistant, Scalable Computing Laboratory Goanna, compute cluster and InfiniBand network monitor tool: http://www.scl.ameslab.gov/Projects/Monitor/ _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list