How do I get a widget to tell me truly how much size it would like? gtk_widget_size_request does not appear to work.
Specifically, I have a dialog window that contains a notebook with five pages; each page contains a textview wrapped in a scrolledwindow. Some information arrives, I stuff it into the relevant pages, and then pop up the dialog. However, I would like the dialog to ask the window manager for as much size as is needed to display the largest page without scrolling, not just the currently selected page. I thought I could do this by asking the page textview widgets their size with gtk_widget_size_request, and then using gtk_widget_set_size_request to tell the selected page to ask for the maximum of these sizes. However, the values I get back from gtk_widget_size_request seem arbitrary. Some of them (usually the first pages to have their text information updated) seem accurate, but the others are sometimes too small (e.g (0,19), suggesting a requistion on the basis of no text), or too large (a screen height or more), for which I have no idea whence it came. This is with gtk+ 2.14.4. -- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
