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Getting the actual displayed height and width of a Gtk widget

To get the height and width of a GtkEventBox, I tried the following:

GtkRequisition requisition;
gtk_widget_get_child_requisition(widget, &requisition);
// Getting requisition.height 0

widget->allocation-x   //getting 0
widget->allocation-height   //getting -1

gtk_widget_get_size_request( widget, &height, &width); //getting 0

What function will give you the actual displayed height and width of the widget?

Solution

  • Once your widget have been realized (given a size depending on what it's parent container can give it) you should be able to get these values with widget->allocation.width and widget->allocation.height.

    There's nothing wrong in the way gtk does this. There's a difference between what size a widget would like to have and what size it actually gets. So the timing on reading these values is important. Having 'get' methods for these variables wont change the fact that they are not initialized yet.

    The usual way people go around this is to tap into the size-allocate signal that is emitted when the widget got a new actual size. Something like this:

    void my_getsize(GtkWidget *widget, GtkAllocation *allocation, void *data) {
    printf("width = %d, height = %d\n", allocation->width, allocation->height);
}

    And in your main loop somewhere, connect the signal:

    g_signal_connect(mywidget, "size-allocate", G_CALLBACK(my_getsize), NULL);