From: Olivier Andrieu <oandrieu at nerim.net>
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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 22:35:06 +0200
To: Matt Gushee <matt at gushee.net>
Cc: lablgtk at math.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Subject: Re: Discovering widget dimensions
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 Matt Gushee [Tuesday 16 May 2006] :
 >
 > I need to find the current height of a widget in LablGTK2. I have
 > been looking for property names such as 'height', 'width', or
 > 'geometry', but they don't seem to exist.

some_widget#misc#allocation will give you the allocation field of the
widget. It's called 'allocation' because of the way containers work in
GTK+: a widget asks its parent container for some space
(GtkRequisition) and then the container replies with some space
(GtkAllocation)

cf http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkWidget.html#GtkWidget-struct

-- 
   Olivier