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I have GtkScrollWindow with viewport and GtkDrawingArea in it. I'd like to be able to scroll the drawing area's contents, but I need the main window's size to remain unchanged (only scrollbars to appear over drawing area). When I change the scroll window's size with gtk_widget_set_size_request function, the whole window resizes (what's more, it can't be resized by user to any smaller size than set then). How to adjust the scroll window to make it work properly?

Well of course the window will change size if its contents are changing size. Take a look at the documenttion: http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-set-size-request set_size_request will specify the minimum dimension for a widget so you won't be able to shrink it below this, which is generally undesirable.
If you want to have independent control over the sizing of the whole window and sections therein then the HPaned and VPaned layout widgets can be useful. You can set the sizing of the two panes programmatically and still have user control to adjust it how they might like.

Hi.



You probably want to resize underlying GtkDrawingArea, not GtkScrolledWindow. When drawing area will get too big for scrolled window, scrollbars will appear while main window will retain it's size.

Cheers.
Tadej

If your trying to do this with gtk+3 the documentation says both gtk_hpaned_new and gtk_vpaned_new have been phase out since version 3.2 and to use gtk_paned_new instead.

http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.4/GtkHPaned.html
http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/3.4/GtkVPaned.html

There's an example of a scrolling drawing area using GTK+3 with CSS for styling in the tutorials section.
http://www.gtkforums.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=988&p=195381=Drawing+with+Cairo+in+GTK3#p195381