Re: Gtk::HPaned size and divider

[Matthias Kaeppler <nospam digitalraid com>]

Vladislav Grinchenko wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-04-12 at 17:47, Matthias Kaeppler wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I want to set the position of the divider in a pane to always be 
> > centered. So I tried the obvious:
> >
> > pane.set_position( pane.get_width() / 2 );
> >
> > Problem is, get_width() always returns 1.
> > I also tried to resize the pane with set_size_request() but that didn't 
> > have any effect.
> >
> > Am I missing something?
>
>
> pane.signal_value_changed ().connect (
>              mem_fun (*foobar, &FooBar::geom_changed_cb));
>
> void FooBar::geom_change_cb ()
> {
>  	pane.set_position( pane.get_width() / 2 );
> }

Hmm, you didn't tell me why get_width() always returned 1 in my case :)
Why should/does it return a sane value when called in a signal handler?

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Matthias Kaeppler