comboboxentry doesn't adjust width (BookwormPup64)

[don570]

comboboxentry widget (GTKDIALOG feature) doesn't adjust width

I'll give an example .
<comboboxentry width-request="80">

The width request is ignored.
I tried the script on Easy OS and fatdog64 and the width request was respected.

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#!/bin/bash
for P in gtkdialog4 gtkdialog3 gtkdialog; do
  GTKDIALOG=$(which $P) && break
done
VERSION=1.0
LENGTH=60
gtkdialog -v > /tmp/GTK
export TEST='
<window title="'Test' '"$VERSION"'" width-request="600">
<vbox>
				
	
<frame> 
     <text>
      <label>"'"$(grep  DISTRO_NAME   /etc/DISTRO_SPECS)"'"</label>
    </text>
  <text>
     <input file>'/tmp/GTK'</input>
     </text>
 </frame>

<hbox homogeneous="true">	
<hbox>


<hbox><frame Length>
 <comboboxentry width-request="80">
      <variable>LENGTH</variable>
      <default>'$LENGTH'</default>
      <item>30</item>
      <item>60</item>
      <item>90</item>
      <item>120</item>
      <item>180</item>
      <item>240</item>
    </comboboxentry>
      </frame>
</hbox>
         <frame Source Device>
<hbox> 
         <comboboxentry activates_default="true">
                <default>default</default>
				<item>hw:0</item>
				<item>hw:1</item>
				<variable>DEV</variable>
			</comboboxentry>
           </hbox> </frame>
</hbox>
</hbox>
</vbox> 
</window>
'
$GTKDIALOG -p TEST -c
   

exit 0
/code]

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[don570]

Here is the same script in Easy OS

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[MochiMoppel]

Instead of checking for gtkdialog versions that are long dead (gtkdialog3,gtkdialog4)

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for P in gtkdialog4 gtkdialog3 gtkdialog; do
  GTKDIALOG=$(which $P) && break
done

check for versions that exist. In BockwormPup64 there are 2, and gtk2dialog, the one "Built with support for: GTK +2", still respects width-request

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for P in gtk2dialog gtkdialog; do
  GTKDIALOG=$(which $P) && break
done

In order to see the correct version information you also need to fix line 7. Should be $GTKDIALOG -v > /tmp/GTK

[don570]

Thanks for info
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[radky]

@don570

Restricted scaling of the comboboxentry widget is one of many changes observed as the GTK2 widget toolkit transitioned to GTK3. For example, the GTK2 comboboxentry widget fully supports the width-request parameter but the GTK3 version ignores the width-request parameter until the selected value exceeds an arbitrary (hardcoded) minimum-allowable width.

For example, in your code above, change the width-request from 80 to a significantly higher value (such as 250) and the comboboxentry widget will upscale correctly with the GTK3 version of gtkdialog.

On the other hand, it seems the companion comboboxtext widget will upscale and downscale correctly with both GTK2 and GTK3 versions of gtkdialog.

[don570]

On the other hand, it seems the companion comboboxtext widget will upscale and downscale correctly with both GTK2 and GTK3 versions of gtkdialog.

I want to use the comboboxentry widget so I can edit the length of a recording.
comboboxtext widget doesn't allow this so I won't use it.
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