Re: [gtkmm] Q: How to layout objects on a Notebook page

[Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com>]

>Just to give you an idea, though, the code is trivial:
>
>   list<string> gl;
>
>   gl.push_back("true");
>   gl.push_back("false");
>
>   _combo.set_popdown_strings(gl);
>
>//Restrict it to these choices only:
>   _combo.set_value_in_list();
>
>The editable part of the combo is wide enough to hold the string 
>"1234567890123456789012345", which is obviously far larger than necessary, 
>and looks silly when the only possible values are "true" and "false".
>
>If I could set it to something like the width of "false  " in the current 
>font that would look much more reasonable.

AFAIK, its not simple. You need to do:

       _combo.get_entry()->set_size_request (width, -1);

but to determine "width", you will to descend into the wonders of
PangoLayouts.