Setting button height and width in python with gtk2

[The Midnight Coder]

Hi.

I just started with pygtk and I cant seem to get the button to a certain height and width. I tried set_size_request but it doesn't seem to work. Can anybody help me with this?

This is my __init__ function:



def __init__(self):
self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
self.window.set_title("MyApp1")
self.window.set_size_request(400,400)
self.window.connect("delete_event",self.delete_event)

self.box1 = gtk.HBox()

self.quit_button = gtk.Button("Quit",gtk.STOCK_CLOSE)
self.quit_button.set_size_request(20,20)
self.quit_button.set_tooltip_text("Close this window")
self.quit_button.connect("clicked",self.manual_quit)

self.box1.pack_start(self.quit_button)

self.window.add(self.box1)
self.box1.show()
self.quit_button.show()

self.window.show()

[nvteighen]

What one usually does is to set the box's height and width and then tell that box how to distribute space among its contained widgets...

[StephenF]

You are using the default packing options which is for filling and expansion of widgets to fit the available space.


import gtk

class App(object):
def __init__(self):
self.window = gtk.Window(gtk.WINDOW_TOPLEVEL)
self.window.set_title("MyApp1")
self.window.set_size_request(400,400)
self.window.connect("delete_event",gtk.main_quit)

self.box0 = gtk.VBox()
self.box1 = gtk.HBox()
self.box0.pack_start(self.box1, fill=False)
self.box1.show()

self.quit_button = gtk.Button("Quit",gtk.STOCK_CLOSE)
self.quit_button.set_size_request(20,20)
self.quit_button.set_tooltip_text("Close this window")
self.quit_button.connect("clicked",gtk.main_quit)

self.box1.pack_start(self.quit_button, fill=False)

self.window.add(self.box0)
self.box0.show()
self.quit_button.show()

self.window.show()

a = App()
gtk.main()

The size 20x20 is considerably smaller than the label text on the button. Removal of this yields a button that fits the size of its text.

[The Midnight Coder]

Thanks :) I had read up on the packing options but had forgotten about the fill, padding and expansion options :oops: