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

[John Pye]

Hi Steve,

Sorry for the delay getting back to you following your suggestions on 
this. I tried what you suggested and removed the default size 
specificiation in Glade. It still didn't work: the window shows up very 
small (about 200x300 px) then is resized to my stored-preferences size 
during the next refresh.

What did you mean by "Set the size and position after the window is 
realized but before is it mapped?" -- how can I do that? I basically 
just have the following:

>         glade = gtk.glade.XML(GLADE_FILE,"browserwin")
>
>         self.window = glade.get_widget("browserwin")
>
>         if not self.window:
>             raise RuntimeError("Couldn't load window from glade file")
>
>         _display = self.window.get_screen().get_display().get_name()
>         _geom=self.prefs.getGeometrySizePosition(_display,"browserwin")
>         if _geom:
>             self.window.resize(_geom[0],_geom[1])
>             self.window.move(_geom[2],_geom[3])
>         
>         self.window.connect("delete_event", self.delete_event)


Cheers
JP

Steve McClure wrote:

>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
>>
>>    
>>