[gtk+] spin button: Document sizing peculiarities
- From: Matthias Clasen <matthiasc src gnome org>
- To: commits-list gnome org
- Cc:
- Subject: [gtk+] spin button: Document sizing peculiarities
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2016 04:31:29 +0000 (UTC)
commit 79fb921ffc7d19ba85ca3df966d3317c93b382e6
Author: Matthias Clasen <mclasen redhat com>
Date: Wed Jan 27 23:30:25 2016 -0500
spin button: Document sizing peculiarities
Document that it is best to explicitly set width-chars and
max-width-chars to avoid surprises.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=727294
gtk/gtkspinbutton.c | 6 +++++-
1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/gtk/gtkspinbutton.c b/gtk/gtkspinbutton.c
index 27f5184..7961dc9 100644
--- a/gtk/gtkspinbutton.c
+++ b/gtk/gtkspinbutton.c
@@ -81,7 +81,11 @@
*
* The main properties of a GtkSpinButton are through an adjustment.
* See the #GtkAdjustment section for more details about an adjustment's
- * properties.
+ * properties. Note that GtkSpinButton will by default make its entry
+ * large enough to accomodate the lower and upper bounds of the adjustment,
+ * which can lead to surprising results. Best practice is to set both
+ * the #GtkEntry::width-chars and #GtkEntry::max-width-chars poperties
+ * to the desired number of characters to display in the entry.
*
* # CSS nodes
*
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