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kharrison
 Post subject: Creating a Scrolling List of Widgets
PostPosted: Wed Dec 19, 2007 5:24 pm 
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I have a LOT of widgets that I need to present to the user for input. However, I don't want to create a huge window to present them all at once, I also don't want to chop up the data entry fields by placing the widgets on multiple notebook tabs. I would much rather allow the user to scroll through a list of widgets and set the values accordingly.
The widgets vary in type, (e.g., text fields, labels, spin buttons, checkboxes, etc.)

Is this possible in Gtk? How about within Glade?

I guess I should add that I am experimenting with placing widgets on a GtkFixed container within a GtkScrolledWindow widget (using Glade).


Last edited by kharrison on Wed Dec 19, 2007 8:08 pm, edited 1 time in total.

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Look at the glade properties pane. Is that what you're trying to do? If so, place your widgets in a GtkVBox within a GtkViewport within a GtkScrolledWindow.

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kharrison
 Post subject: Creating A Scrolling List of Widgets
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Yes.... that is essentially what I am trying to accomplish.
Thanks for the tip. Is there an advantage to using a GtkVBox over a GtkFixed container for this type of implementation?
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Micah Carrick
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Needing to use a GtkFixed is rare. Usually, by packing widgets into containers and appropriately setting packing options, borders, padding, etc. you can achieve what you want with less coding.

It's tricky for a new GTK+ developer as the concepts of widget allocation and packing are new. You'll want to read up on it and experiment with the "expand" and "fill" packing properties.

Below a glade file showing what I think you're trying to do. The labels in the left column of the GtkTable have expand set to false, so that column is as big as the largest label. The widgets in the right column have horizontal expanding TRUE so that they fill the rest of the space.

The GtkHBox is packed into a viewport packed into a GtkScrolledWindow. When the window is resized below a size which allows all the widgets to be viewed, then scrollbars will appear.

example.glade
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<!DOCTYPE glade-interface SYSTEM "glade-2.0.dtd">
<!--Generated with glade3 3.4.0 on Wed Dec 19 12:36:21 2007 -->
<glade-interface>
  <widget class="GtkWindow" id="window1">
    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
    <child>
      <widget class="GtkScrolledWindow" id="scrolledwindow1">
        <property name="visible">True</property>
        <property name="can_focus">True</property>
        <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
        <property name="hscrollbar_policy">GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC</property>
        <property name="vscrollbar_policy">GTK_POLICY_AUTOMATIC</property>
        <child>
          <widget class="GtkViewport" id="viewport1">
            <property name="visible">True</property>
            <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
            <property name="resize_mode">GTK_RESIZE_QUEUE</property>
            <child>
              <widget class="GtkTable" id="table1">
                <property name="visible">True</property>
                <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                <property name="n_rows">9</property>
                <property name="n_columns">2</property>
                <property name="column_spacing">6</property>
                <property name="row_spacing">2</property>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkEntry" id="entry4">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="left_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="right_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="top_attach">8</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">9</property>
                    <property name="y_options"></property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkEntry" id="entry3">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="left_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="right_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="top_attach">7</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">8</property>
                    <property name="y_options"></property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkEntry" id="entry2">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="left_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="right_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="top_attach">6</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">7</property>
                    <property name="y_options"></property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkColorButton" id="colorbutton1">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                    <property name="receives_default">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_MOTION_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="response_id">0</property>
                    <property name="color">#000000000000</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="left_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="right_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="top_attach">5</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">6</property>
                    <property name="y_options"></property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkFontButton" id="fontbutton1">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                    <property name="receives_default">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="response_id">0</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="left_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="right_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="top_attach">4</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">5</property>
                    <property name="y_options"></property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkToggleButton" id="togglebutton1">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                    <property name="receives_default">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">togglebutton</property>
                    <property name="response_id">0</property>
                    <property name="active">True</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="left_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="right_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="top_attach">3</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">4</property>
                    <property name="y_options"></property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkComboBox" id="combobox1">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="left_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="right_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="top_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">3</property>
                    <property name="y_options"></property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkSpinButton" id="spinbutton1">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="adjustment">0 0 100 1 10 10</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="left_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="right_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="top_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="y_options"></property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkEntry" id="entry1">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="can_focus">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="left_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="right_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="y_options"></property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label10">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="xalign">1</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">Label:</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="top_attach">8</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">9</property>
                    <property name="x_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                    <property name="y_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label9">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="xalign">1</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">Label:</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="top_attach">7</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">8</property>
                    <property name="x_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                    <property name="y_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label8">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="xalign">1</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">Label:</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="top_attach">5</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">6</property>
                    <property name="x_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                    <property name="y_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label7">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="xalign">1</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">Label:</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="top_attach">6</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">7</property>
                    <property name="x_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                    <property name="y_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label6">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="xalign">1</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">Label:</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="top_attach">4</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">5</property>
                    <property name="x_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                    <property name="y_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label5">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="xalign">1</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">Label with more chars:</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="top_attach">3</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">4</property>
                    <property name="x_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                    <property name="y_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label4">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="xalign">1</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">Label:</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="top_attach">1</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="x_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                    <property name="y_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label3">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="xalign">1</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">Label:</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="top_attach">2</property>
                    <property name="bottom_attach">3</property>
                    <property name="x_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                    <property name="y_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
                <child>
                  <widget class="GtkLabel" id="label1">
                    <property name="visible">True</property>
                    <property name="events">GDK_POINTER_MOTION_MASK | GDK_POINTER_MOTION_HINT_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_PRESS_MASK | GDK_BUTTON_RELEASE_MASK</property>
                    <property name="xalign">1</property>
                    <property name="label" translatable="yes">Label:</property>
                  </widget>
                  <packing>
                    <property name="x_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                    <property name="y_options">GTK_FILL</property>
                  </packing>
                </child>
              </widget>
            </child>
          </widget>
        </child>
      </widget>
    </child>
  </widget>
</glade-interface>

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