On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 09:02:38AM +0100, z...@excite.it wrote: > Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2012 09:02:38 +0100 > From: z...@excite.it > Subject: Re: need help getting this right > To: gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > > On Sunday 26 February 2012 00:28:34 Gary Kline wrote: > > i'll append ~130 lines of C and gtk v2.0 or later. i found this > > online in a much busier [and complex] example. for several days, > > on and off, i messed around trying to get two independent horizontal > > bars. i would guess that in total, i hacked away around 17-23 > > hours. this morning i threw everything away and started from > > *scratch*. after about two hours of using EXtreme care, i got to > > horizontal bars to work. > > > > (by the way, this is for part of my menu-items "Options" dropdown. > > i FINALLY found the program i had been looking for. Gespeaker. i > > thought: Oh great; that's got all i need. BUUUT: Bzzt: it is is > > python and i'm still learning that. ) > > > > what i need help w with is mostly =one=- thing: give the numbers more > > =room=. only "0" and "100" are clear. the rest are displayed as if > > torn [??]; i would like lots of vertical space between my three or > > four horizontal bars. i've tried the 'separator' bar. no joy, at > > least AFAICT. > > > > thanks much in advance, > > > > gary > > > > > > > > Hi, > gtk_widget_set_usize (GTK_WIDGET (hscale), 200, -1); > > works for me. > > Ciao, > zz
YES! t.y. do you, or anybody else know how to get rid of the (*%##$#!@#) red lines and that greyish grab-hold-slider that shows up when i move my mouse cursor down there? i admit to being Slow, but the damn thing fades awsay most of the time before i can grab hold of it. [[FWIW,I'm running ubuntu 11.10; so it =may= be that the red bar+grey/silver slider is something that =I= have to adjust.... ]] gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix Voice By Computer (for Universal Access): http:/www.thought.org/vbc The 8.57a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org Twenty-five years of service to the Unix community. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list