Window.parseGeometry

Parses a standard X Window System geometry string - see the manual page for X (type “man X”) for details on this. gtk_window_parse_geometry() does work on all GTK+ ports including Win32 but is primarily intended for an X environment.

If either a size or a position can be extracted from the geometry string, gtk_window_parse_geometry() returns %TRUE and calls gtk_window_set_default_size() and/or gtk_window_move() to resize/move the window.

If gtk_window_parse_geometry() returns %TRUE, it will also set the #GDK_HINT_USER_POS and/or #GDK_HINT_USER_SIZE hints indicating to the window manager that the size/position of the window was user-specified. This causes most window managers to honor the geometry.

Note that for gtk_window_parse_geometry() to work as expected, it has to be called when the window has its “final” size, i.e. after calling gtk_widget_show_all() on the contents and gtk_window_set_geometry_hints() on the window. |[<!-- language="C" --> #include <gtk/gtk.h>

static void fill_with_content (GtkWidget *vbox) { // fill with content... }

int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { GtkWidget *window, *vbox; GdkGeometry size_hints = { 100, 50, 0, 0, 100, 50, 10, 10, 0.0, 0.0, GDK_GRAVITY_NORTH_WEST };

gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

window = gtk_window_new (GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL); vbox = gtk_box_new (GTK_ORIENTATION_VERTICAL, 0);

gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), vbox); fill_with_content (vbox); gtk_widget_show_all (vbox);

gtk_window_set_geometry_hints (GTK_WINDOW (window), window, &size_hints, GDK_HINT_MIN_SIZE | GDK_HINT_BASE_SIZE | GDK_HINT_RESIZE_INC);

if (argc > 1) { gboolean res; res = gtk_window_parse_geometry (GTK_WINDOW (window), argv[1]); if (! res) fprintf (stderr, "Failed to parse “%s”\n", argv[1]); }

gtk_widget_show_all (window); gtk_main ();

return 0; } ]|

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class Window
bool
parseGeometry
(
string geometry
)

Parameters

geometry string

geometry string

Return: %TRUE if string was parsed successfully

Detailed Description

Deprecated: Geometry handling in GTK is deprecated.

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