[pygtk] loading a glade window with user-preferred size and location

[Steve McClure]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 14:49 +1100, John Pye wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> The following doesn't seem to work for me unless I switch the
> 'set_default_size' to 'resize'. Is this because of something I'm doing
> with Glade?
> 
> 
>         self.window = glade.get_widget("browserwin")
> 
>         _display = self.window.get_screen().get_display().get_name()
> 
>         # my own routine for the previously saved window position....
>         _geom=self.prefs.getGeometrySizePosition(_display,"browserwin")
> 
>         if _geom:
>             self.window.set_default_size(_geom[0],_geom[1])
>             #self.window.resize(_geom[0],_geom[1])
>             self.window.move(_geom[2],_geom[3])
> 
> 
> The problem with this approach is that the window first shows up at the
> Glade-specified size, then is resized later to the user-preferenced
> default size. So somehow I'm failing to 'set_default_size' before the
> window is first drawn.
> 
> Does this mean I can't use Glade to create a user-preference-sized
> window? Is there a better way of doing all this?

Don't set the size in glade?

Set the size and position after the window is realized but before is it
mapped?

> 
> Cheers
> JP
> 
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