Thanks Shaun, I missed that one! Just what I wanted. Nick Soffe On 17 Jun 2003, Shaun McCance wrote: > On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 04:44, Nick Soffe wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to restrict the maximum width of the top level window in an > > application I've written for gtk2.x. I don't want to prevent the user from > > resizing altogether. The window contains various resizable widgets > > including a drawingarea on which I've set the minimum size with a > > gtk_widget_set_size_request. Sorry if this is well known but after > > searching the docs I'm still unsure of the correct way to achieve this > > under gtk2.x. > > Try something like: > > GdkGeometry geometry; > geometry.max_width = my_maximum_width; > geometry.max_height = G_MAX_SHORT; > gtk_window_set_geometry_hints (GTK_WINDOW (my_window), > NULL, > &geometry, > GDK_HINT_MAX_SIZE); > > -- > Shaun > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list >