Re: Size of scrolled window

[j romildo gmail com]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 11:00:51PM -0400, Feng Yu wrote:
> Hi Jose,
>
> What do you mean by as much of .... as possible?
> Do you mean 'as much as possible unless it exceeds the screen height?'

Yes, that is it.

> Then perhaps you can get the treeview's size requisition, compare it with
> the screen height, then resize the toplevel window(the dialog), before the
> dialog shows up.

Would that be done just before calling the gtk main loop? To implement
that, I will need functions to:
* get the requistion for the widget before it is shown
* get the screen height
* set the default window height
I will try that.

Romildo

> 2009/4/29 José Romildo Malaquias <j romildo gmail com>
>
> > One application has a dialog with a tree view widget based on a
> > list store. The tree view is inside a scrolled window with
> > PolicyNever and PolicyAutomatic policies for the horizontal and
> > vertical scrollbars, respectively. See attached image.
> >
> > How can I automatically get the dialog height large enough to
> > show as much of the tree view lines as possible, without using
> > the vertical scrollbar?
> >
> > José Romildo