<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >How do I set the size of a widget/window? How do I prevent the user resizing my window? [GTK 2.x]</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="GTK+ FAQ" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Development with GTK+: general questions" HREF="c466.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="How could I get any widgets position?" HREF="x633.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="How do I add a popup menu to my GTK+ application?" HREF="x660.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >GTK+ FAQ</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x633.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Development with GTK+: general questions</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x660.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN653" >How do I set the size of a widget/window? How do I prevent the user resizing my window? <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >[GTK 2.x]</I ></A ></H1 ><P >The <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >gtk_widget_set_size_request()</TT > function is used to set the size of a widget to a specific size. The function <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >gtk_window_set_resizable()</TT > function sets whether the user can resize a window, which they can by default. The definition of these functions are:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >void gtk_widget_set_size_request (GtkWidget *widget, gint width, gint height); void gtk_window_set_resizable (GtkWindow *window, gboolean resizable); </PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x633.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x660.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >How could I get any widgets position?</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c466.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >How do I add a popup menu to my GTK+ application?</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >