[pygtk] Window grows too much when loading data into TreeView

[Walter Leibbrandt]

Roberto Bonvallet wrote:
> Dear all,
> I have written a small PyGTK program for the first time in order to 
> help me visualize some data, but I have this problem I hope someone 
> can help me to solve.
>
> The window contains a VBox, whose bottom cell contains a HBox with a 
> TreeView and its VScrollbar.  The TreeView is populated by loading 
> data from a file when the user presses a button.
>
> I tested my program in a tiled window manager (Ion3), where the window 
> size is fixed by the containing tile, and it works fine: the TreeView 
> fits the window and can be scrolled down with the VScrollbar.
>
> But now I've run my program in Gnome, and now the TreeView grows to 
> show all its contents, so I get a very tall window that doesn't fit 
> the screen and the scrollbar doesn't work, so I can only see the first 
> handful of rows.
>
> I have set the window default size, and changed the window size after 
> loading the data, but it doesn't help.
>
> The relevant widget creation and packing code:
> [...]
>         self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
>         self.window.set_default_size(200, 400)
>
>         self.vbox = gtk.VBox()
>         self.window.add(self.vbox)
>         self.data_box = gtk.HBox()
>         self.vbox.pack_start(self.data_box, expand=True)
>
>         self.data_view = gtk.TreeView()
>         self.data_box.pack_start(self.data_view, expand=True)
>
>         v = self.data_view.get_vadjustment()
>         self.sb <http://self.sb> = gtk.VScrollbar(adjustment=v)
>         self.data_box.pack_start(self.sb <http://self.sb>, expand=False)
> [...]
>
> Does anybody know what's wrong, and how could I solve this?
> I'd be very thankful for any hint.
>
> Cheers,
> -- 
> Roberto Bonvallet
>
Hi,

Have you tried packing your TreeView in a ScrolledWindow? You can then 
use the ScrolledWindow's set_policy() method to specify when to shown 
which scrollbar(s).


Regards,
Walter

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