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. -- Chad Daelhousen My opinions are my own, until UB purchases my soul. _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
