Totally fed-up with get Gtk widget height and width.

Question

Trying to get Height and Width of GtkEventBox.
Tried following Things.

GtkRequisition requisition;
gtk_widget_get_child_requisition(widget, &requisition);
// Getting requisition.height 0
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widget->allocation-x   //getting 0
widget->allocation-height   //getting -1
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gtk_widget_get_size_request( widget, &height, &width); // Again getting 0
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It is really bad that Gtk has not provided simple function that will give you the actual displayed height and with of the widget.

Anyone tried to get height and with of GtkWidget?

Answer 1

Are you sure that your widget has been both shown and realized/mapped? You can't get the size until the widget has been laid out "for real".

Try listening to the map-event signal.

Answer 2

Use gtk_widget_size_request(), not gtk_widget_get_size_request().

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkWidget.html#gtk-widget-size-request

Answer 3

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);