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Dear All,

I will be more than grateful if you could find time for answering me.
I have a complex structure of a GtkWidget that shows a real time video.

Hierarchy:
Container (Gtk Widget) ---points to---> GtkTable (4x4) ---each of cells points to---> EventBox (GtkWidget)
---points to--->GtkWidget ---points to---> GdkPixbuf ---points to---> IplImage (for each frame of the video).

Question:
If I will perform the next operations:
1. Resize one of the images to the dimensions of all the area of the 4x4 grid.
2. Use "gtk_widget_hide_all" for each one of the 3 other images (EventBox).
3. Use "gtk_widget_show_all" for the upper level (GtkTable).

What will happen? To be more precise:
1. Is it possible to see an image on all the area of the table, even though it is attached only to one of it´s cells?
2. Will it be cropped because the other 3 are hidden or not?

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Thanks in advance,
Felix.

Hi.

As long as you create your GtkTable to be non-homogeneus (pass FALSE as third parameter togtk_table_new()), cells will automatically resize itself. In your case, cell that has enlarged image will fill the space of entire table while other three cells with hidden widgets will occupy no space at all.

Cheers,
Tadej

Hang on won't show_all undo the effects of the hide_all?
As to whether it will actually expand... gtk's layout works on requisition of size from the hierarchy above resulting in allocation of size to widgets below. You'll want to make sure that the widget hierarchy within the table will expand and that the image isn't set to be of a fixed size but can also expand. Apart from that you should have no problems; the widgets that are hidden are in memory but don't affect the layout, e.g. if you had a 500x500 table with only one button in one cell t would look identical to the case of assigning the button to span all 500x500 cells.