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ramesh · GTK+ Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 201 Location: INDIA

hi all
i am doing an example for the frame orientation.
mean to say is
first i am taking a window, and then am putting a frame in to the window.
in this frame i am taking a label. and this all for gui. then

how can it work for the Landscape mode and portrait mode.

is there any way

Micah Carrick · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2008 12:56 am Post subject:

Hey ramesh,

It's very hard to understand clearly what your problem is do to the less-than-perfect english.

A GtkFrame widget's size, like most other widgets, is partially determined by it's parent. That is, it's not a fixed size or fixed ratio. A simplified explanation is that it requests the size it thinks it needs from it's parent, and is given the best size available for it.

So, if you (for example) had a GtkLabel inside of a GtkFrame inside of a GtkWindow, and that window was resizable, then the frame would resize to the same ratio as the window. If the window's width was greater than it's height, then the same would apply to the frame and visa versa.

You are going to need to learn more about "size allocation" and "widget packing" as core GTK+ programming concepts. This can be one of the more difficult aspects to grasp conceptually, but you'll love it once you understand it. Try playing around with widget properties in Glade. Throw a bunch of widgets into other widgets and change 'expand', 'fill', and 'homogeneous' properties to see the effects in real time.

Cheers.

ramesh · GTK+ Guru Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 201 Location: INDIA

i would like to change my frame to +90 degrees.
(ex: my frame contains labels,buttons,textentry,iconview must turn to 90 degrees)