[pygtk] Dialog too large

[Pietro Battiston]

Il giorno mer, 27/01/2010 alle 10.47 +0000, Peyman ha scritto:
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> Understood
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> > Il giorno dom, 24/01/2010 alle 18.03 +0000, Peyman ha scritto:
> >> Sorry for the late reply, but I skipped over this e-mail. I have
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> > Please, *do not* reply to digests, _in particular_ do not leave parts
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> I do not understand, is this a 'digest' (pygtk a daa.com.au)? Who should  
> I send the e-mails to otherwise?
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> > If you ask for help, it is your job to put together some code that  
> > runs,
> > isn't huge and reproduces the problem. Attaching a single file  
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> > on tons of imports doesn't help.
> No problem, I will will provide a self contained example. Attached is  
> a simple example executes two methods. The first, effective_dialog(),  
> creates a dialog which is the appropriate size. I created the most  
> basic dialog for this. The second, deffective_dialog(), creates a  
> dialog which is too large. This is how I implement it in my program,  
> and it is causing problems.
> >
> > On the other hand, I recognize if you do the job if isolating the
> > problem, you'll maybe solve it yourself.
> I think it may have to do with the way I create the buttons in the  
> create_buttons_with_image() helper function.
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I where not exactly able to solve the problem, but I may have understood
something more: the problem is that the action_area is a gtk.HBox, but
it seems it doesn't behave as a HBox in the fact that it doesn't take
care of the "homogeneous" property. Since the text field you add is 160
pixels wide, every other widget in the action_area takes up the same
space, and hence the window is huge.

Take a look at the attachment: I just stopped using the action_area and
added a new HBox, and it works. If instead you uncomment the
"set_homogeneous(True)" call, the problem is here again.

Now: I realize this is not a solution, and if I made no mistakes you may
also want to file a bug about that HBox not behaving like a HBox;
however, about your problem, my advice is that you're using the action
area - and, in general, the Dialog object - in a way that it is not
intended to be used: usually a dialog is really a lot of stuff, and some
_buttons_ in the bottom of the window (the action_area), so if I was in
you I would:
- just use a gtk.Window, or
- just move those controls, which are atypical for an action_area, in
other parts of the dialog.

bye

Pietro
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