varun shrivastava wrote: > you can access GtkAllocation structure which stores the x, y, width > and height allocated to a widget That will (only) give me the size of an existing widget, won't it? Not what I'm looking for; as I was saying, I want to know what size a widget will have without actually creating it. Or differently put, I'd like to know the "rules" for margins/borders that are drawn around a widget I add to a button. - Toralf > > widget->allocation.x > widget->allocation.y > widget->allocation.width > widget->allocation.height > > bye > varun > > > > On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Toralf Lund <toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:toralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > For various technical reasons I won't go into right now, one of my Gtk > apps need to know what size certain buttons it is going to create will > get, before it actually creates them. Is there any way at all I can > calculate this? The buttons will contain pixmaps, and I have the image > data for those, so I actually know the size of the "contents" of the > buttons, but the total size of a button is somewhat larger as > (apparently) borders are always added, so how do I find the size of > these? The border associated with the "border-width" property is not > the one I want, I think, but rather extra borders that magically > appear > based on the the style or theme or I don't know what. > > Help, anyone? > > - Toralf > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx> > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
