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[gtk-list] Re: gtk_container_check_resize performance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn T Amundson)
Sun May 11 20:14:01 1997
From: Shawn T Amundson <amundson@cs.umn.edu>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com
Date: Sun, 11 May 1997 19:13:48 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970511130722.13118A-100000@blacklodge.c2.net> from "Raph Levien" at May 11, 97 01:26:25 pm
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Words Of Raph Levien:
>
>P.S. I've taken a tour through the size negotiation section of gtk
>(gtk_container_check_resize, size_request, and size_allocate). I feel like
>I _almost_ grok it - it's complicated! I will stop yammering about it for
>now, accept the fact that the first release of gzilla will have
>performance problems, then do a thorough review later, with the goal of
>getting size negotiation and redraw calls down to an absolute minimum.
>One thing is starting to become clear: gzilla will be a serious stress
>test of gtk+.
I do have the feeling that much of the stuff I'm going to try and do
I'm going to get hung up on for a while.
>P.P.S. I have found on my own the answers to two of the questions I
>posted earler. First, the gtk_window_set_policy call does what I want
>regarding making the html window fully resizable. Second, the best way
>for the html widget to find out the size of its containing scrolledwindow
>(which is needed to control the set width of wrapped text) is to connect
>a little function to the scrolledwindow's size_allocate signal. This
>function subtracts a nice safety margin from the scrolledwindow's size,
>then hands it to the html to force a rewrap, if necessary.
>
Sounding very sweet.
On a somewhat possibly related topic, what is the possibility of a
text widget that can contain other widgets like the text bloat in TK?
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Shawn T. Amundson University of Minnesota
Systems Administration Computer Science System Staff
amundson@cs.umn.edu http://www.cs.umn.edu/~amundson/
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