Fit window size to text size?

isomorph · **Joined:** Thu Sep 06, 2012 8:45 am **Posts:** 6

I want a window size to be just the right size to show the text in a text_view, unless the text size is greater then some limit size.
The window is built like this using C code.

Code:

      
      window = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
      scrolled_window=gtk_scrolled_window_new(NULL,NULL);
      gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(window), notification_file_name());
      
      gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER (window), scrolled_window);

      text_view = text_view_new_from_file(notification_file_path());
      gtk_container_add(GTK_CONTAINER (scrolled_window), text_view);
 

Is there a way to do that?
Or can I get the size of the text_view in pixels?

Paul Childs · **Posted:** Fri Sep 07, 2012 1:14 am

You may have problems in doing this. The TextView has default settings that can be obtained using gtk_text_view_get_default_attributes (), but at any point these can be overridden by tags in which case locally you can use gtk_text_iter_get_attributes () to find the attributes. In each case the GtkTextAttributes struct has a PangoFontDescription member from which the text size can then be determined. Pango has some good methods for determining text size from that point.
Personally I'm not a fan of setting window sizes. Bad things can happen for small screen devices if its not properly designed and tested.

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