Re: Images / printing / positionning with PHPP GTK

[Chad A Daelhousen <cd9 cse Buffalo EDU>]

At Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:59:23PM -0300, decio.osiris wrote:
> Thanks Chad for your answer.
> 
> So, since it is better not to lock the size of the box 
> containners, how can I garantee the right size of the 
> boxes?
> For example, I was playing around with it and tried out 
> a tipical windows environment design, withe a menubas on 
> top, a vbox with a button box of a toolbar reght bellow 
> it, a status bar on the botton of the window and in the 
> middle, enough space and forms for inputting information 
> (like to create a directory of companies and their 
> adresses) inside a scrolling box.
> But but I just can't get the size of the button box 
> (toolbar) and the middle scrolling box right! 
> How can I fix it?

Try gtk_widget_set_size_request():
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-set-size-request

> As for printing, what do you suggest in your email? 
> (sorry, newbie to it all and trying to understand this 
> new world). That means I can't send the reporting 
> directly from the application to the printer?

I'm not very familiar with printing, but I don't think GTK supports it
itself. I believe GNOME offers printing capability, but I'm not sure of
what; I don't know if it can print random GTK widgets.

> As for the images, please could some one explain if PHP 
> is really limited to xmp images? If not, what are the 
> best formats I can use and how? If so, does that mean I 
> have to insert the ascii code for the image inside the 
> application? Or are there any software to convert other 
> image formats to xpm on windows?
> 
> Thanks everyone
> 

GTK supports several formats (e.g. PNG and JPEG) through pixbuf loaders.
Whether PHP-GTK can use them isn't really a question for gtk-list.

> At Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:10:58PM -0300, decio.osiris 
> wrote:
> > 3. Lastly, in web designing, we use transparent images 
> > to lock the size of boxes and tables so we can create 
> > our deisng acordingly. Tn PHP GTK, is there any way to 
> > do anything like that? Locking the tables or spaces so 
> > the design we create looks always the same?
> 
> I can't answer the rest of your questions, but for this 
> one: no, that's
> considered harmful. Translations, themes, user 
> configuration (font faces
> and sizes), and probably more variables affect the size 
> of text to be
> laid out. It's probably possible with an image-only 
> design, but that's
> not as generally useful.
> 
> For something to be printed, you should probably 
> consider using an
> actual page description language like PostScript or 
> possibly TeX (which
> I am not so familiar with).
> 
> -- 
> Chad Daelhousen
> My opinions are my own, until UB purchases my soul.

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Chad Daelhousen
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