gtk2/docs/reference/gtk/tmpl/gtkfixed.sgml

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GtkFixed

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A container which allows you to position widgets at fixed coordinates

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The #GtkFixed widget is a container which can place child widgets at fixed
positions and with fixed sizes, given in pixels. #GtkFixed performs no
automatic layout management.
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<para>
For most applications, you should not use this container! It keeps
you from having to learn about the other GTK+ containers, but it
results in broken applications.
With #GtkFixed, the following things will result in truncated text, 
overlapping widgets, and other display bugs:
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<para>Themes, which may change widget sizes.
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<para>Fonts other than the one you used to write the app will of
course change the size of widgets containing text; keep in mind that
users may use a larger font because of difficulty reading the default,
or they may be using Windows or the framebuffer port of GTK+, where
different fonts are available.
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Translation of text into other languages changes its size. Also,
display of non-English text will use a different font in many cases.
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In addition, the fixed widget can't properly be mirrored in
right-to-left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. i.e. normally GTK+
will flip the interface to put labels to the right of the thing they
label, but it can't do that with #GtkFixed. So your application will 
not be usable in right-to-left languages.
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Finally, fixed positioning makes it kind of annoying to add/remove GUI
elements, since you have to reposition all the other elements. This is
a long-term maintenance problem for your application.
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<para>
If you know none of these things are an issue for your application,
and prefer the simplicity of #GtkFixed, by all means use the
widget. But you should be aware of the tradeoffs.
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The #GtkFixed-struct struct contains the following fields.
(These fields should be considered read-only. They should never be set by
an application.)

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<entry>#GList *children;</entry>
<entry>a list of #GtkFixedChild elements, containing the child widgets and
their positions.</entry>
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<!-- ##### FUNCTION gtk_fixed_new ##### -->
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Creates a new #GtkFixed.
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@Returns: a new #GtkFixed.


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Adds a widget to a #GtkFixed container at the given position.
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@fixed: a #GtkFixed.
@widget: the widget to add.
@x: the horizontal position to place the widget at.
@y: the vertical position to place the widget at.


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Moves a child of a #GtkFixed container to the given position.
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@fixed: a #GtkFixed.
@widget: the child widget.
@x: the horizontal position to move the widget to.
@y: the vertical position to move the widget to.


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@fixed: 
@Returns: 


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@has_window: