Re: gtkdialog maximum size

2017-09-13 Thread Rúben Rodrigues
Thanks. I don't solved my other problem yet. I leave the problem with two dialog for other time. But using GtkScrolledWindow i resolved this problem. Why are you saying that using a scrolled window with parts invisible is not user frindly? Best regards, Ruben Às 11:16 de 13/09/2017, Stefan

Re: gtkdialog maximum size

2017-09-13 Thread rbd
I second Stefan's suggestion of encapsulating your dialog panel within a scrolled window, and in fact I have made it a habit to implement that for every major toplevel window in all of my GUI software. You never know when an app that was designed for a nice fat desktop display will end up

Re: gtkdialog maximum size

2017-09-13 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2017-09-13 at 10:34 +, Rúben Rodrigues wrote: > Why are you saying that using a scrolled window with parts invisible > is  > not user frindly? Because the user has to scroll :-) Of course having a scrolled window with active scrollbars can be necessary -- when there is really more

Re: gtkdialog maximum size

2017-09-13 Thread Stefan Salewski
On Wed, 2017-09-13 at 10:59 +0100, Emmanuele Bassi wrote: > Why are you using a GtkDialog? You should be using a GtkWindow for a > complex UI. > > Additionally, the size of a top-level is given by its contents, > unless > you specify a size yourself. If your UI is too big, you'll have to >

Re: gtkdialog maximum size

2017-09-13 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 12 September 2017 at 18:06, Rúben Rodrigues wrote: > Someone knows how to limite the maximum size of gtkdialog? My problem is > that as the dialog does resize itself, sometimes it gets bigger that the > screen. Why are you using a GtkDialog? You should be using a