# gtkWindow auto resizing **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby-Gnome 2\ **Created:** [February 25, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680 "2011-02-25T00:03:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@dubstep](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/dubstep)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/1 "2011-02-25T00:03:25Z")
hello forum, i’ve got a question concerning Gtk::Window auto-resizing behavior. i’m working on an audio player, and i’ve got two different versions - one that is just a basic player, and another that looks like a turntable (i should be able to share it soon, should anyone give a hoot…) in the basic player, i set up the gui inside a #Window like this: ################## …(truncated) btnBox = Gtk::HBox.new(true,2) … btnBox.pack\_start(player.playBtn,false,false,0) … box = Gtk::VBox.new(false, 0) box.pack\_start(player.infoBox, false, false, 2) box.pack\_start(player.progBox, false, false, 2) box.pack\_start(player.artBox, true, true, 2) box.pack\_start(btnBox, false, false, 2) player.mainWin.add(box) player.mainWin.show\_all #################### this has the nice effect that the #Window starts up sized to fit everything, and automatically resizes according to the size of the infoBox (an #EventBox with a #Label in it)… that is to say, if the text within the label is longer than the #Window allows for, the #Window gets bigger vertically to accomodate it. this was through no plan of my own (i must admit,) but i really like the effect. the other player is basically the same, but instead of packing the buttons and the artBox (an EventBox with an album-cover #Image inside it,) i pack the infoBox and the “table” (an instance of a class which inherits from Gtk::Layout) into a #VBox, like this: #################### box = Gtk::VBox.new(false, 0) box.pack\_start(player.infoBox, false, false, 2) box.pack\_start(player.table, true, true, 2) player.mainWin.add(box) player.mainWin.show\_all #################### strange thing is that although this seems exactly the same to me, it has a very different behavior. here, the mainWin #Window is quite small at startup, and after manually resizing the mainWin, it no longer resizes to accomodate for different text lengths - the infoBox now pushes the table #Layout down and cuts it off at the bottom of the mainWin, rather than pushing the mainWin up and expanding it, as in the first example. got me stumped… any ideas what’s going on here? thanks in advance for any help - -jk ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 11:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/2 "2011-02-25T11:18:11Z")
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:03 AM, J. K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > … > player.mainWin.show\_all > buttons and the artBox (an EventBox with an album-cover #Image inside > > thanks in advance for any help - I’m not really good with this, but I believe Layout is a container that support scrolled by default, and supposed to be used by adding it to a ScrolledWindow ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 11:26am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/3 "2011-02-25T11:26:57Z")
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 6:17 PM, hendra kusuma [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > > box.pack\_start(player.artBox, true, true, 2) > > gets bigger vertically to accomodate it. this was through no plan of my > > box.pack\_start(player.table, true, true, 2) > > first example. Also, since you are making an audio player can I request some feature? I would like a run-and-go media player that load a directory just like winamp. I never like to manage my music. If you make a jukebox like, please at least make these operations easy to do that can be controlled by global hotkey, at least command line parameter to play/pause/next/prev. I can assign the shortcut myself and if possible, it search a text file with the same name as the song is playing, and display it’s content (which is supposed to be lyric of the playing song) in a window. I’m tired of those media player that fetch lyric from internet. That’s only good for western music Thanks alot ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/4 "2011-02-25T18:08:30Z")
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 7:32 PM, J. K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > the bottom > half of the image to append files, the top half to prepend fil Hi J.K. I see your screenshot, looks nice This is just an idea, about playlist. We have two lists, 1st is the list of playlist, 2nd is the songs in selected playlist put them side by side, perhaps looks like below * * * ## | list | list | | of | of | | playlist | songs in | | | selected | | | playlist | | | | the idea comes from winamp3, I think its very cool, but then winamp discard it in ver 4 and since then, this kind of playlist gone forever never found it elsewhere again If you can make it, it would be cool But if you don’t, it shouldn’t be a problem either afterall 1 playlist is what we all need Thank you Hope to see it soon ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 12:32pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/5 "2011-02-25T12:32:02Z")
hi hendra - thanks for the idea about the scrolled window - i was thinking the problem might be the layout… i’ll try putting it into a scrolled window and see what happens. feature requests for the player are always welcome - at present there are two ways to load directories or files into the player… through a file selection dialog that pops-up with a button-press, or by dragging and dropping files or directories onto the cover image (onto the bottom half of the image to append files, the top half to prepend files.) a popup to display lyrics from a .txt would be easy enough to implement too - and don’t worry - i like the local stuff better than the internet searches as well! the player is really quite simple - i too prefer to just load files from my directories which are already organized to my liking. i’m cleaning it up now, and will share it when it’s more or less presentable… some things that still need work (and please feel free to add anything you like) are playlist management (right now you can clear the whole thing, but not clear individual files,) hotkeys, and commandline functions. i’ll post a link here when it’s more or less done. i’ve attached a screenshot of the thing in action at 100% scale so you can see it well, i usually scale it down to around 40% so that it doesn’t eat up the whole screen… thanks again for the suggestions - -jk ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 10:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/6 "2011-02-25T22:41:09Z")
hey there - hendra, yes, the two playlist thing can be neat - if i understand what you’re getting at, the 1st is basically a list of all the songs in your collection, and the 2nd a list of songs in queue. i wrote this player after a setup that i had with foobar2000, and i had a nice “1st playlist,” or media library window, and then an active playlist window. i’m working on a nice looking directory browser that works with the player that would be perhaps similar to what you’re talking about. vincent, i’ll take a look at the hotkey library - it sounds great. i’m looking now at updating to gtk2-0.19.4 (i’m still with .19.3 which came in my package manager,) mostly for your gstreamer MessageTag parsing patch - thanks for working that out! i’m using the mp3info gem right now, but i would prefer to do without it. i’ll check out your audio player too, thanks for the link - this is also my first ruby project. i should have this thing cleaned up enough to share soon. it’s far from perfect, but it generally works. i seem to be crashing a lot lately on a segmentation fault - not sure what that’s about, but i’ll hopefully figure it out before long. ah, i solved my resize problem. still not sure why in the first example the window resizes automatically, but i ended up just writing a couple of lines to resize the window based on the info text length, and that’s good enough for me… thanks again for the input - -jk ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 2:24am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/7 "2011-02-26T02:24:34Z")
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 5:41 AM, J. K. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)wrote: > Well, you’re not really getting my idea, but that’s would be cool too if you’re doing it, then make sure to implement search in 1st playlist so we can search to narrow the list and then drag-and-drop song we want to 2nd playlist I think it would be very nice. I surely can live with that 😃 > vincent, i’ll take a look at the hotkey library I’ll go there also right now, but i would prefer to do without it. i’ll check out your > audio player too, thanks for the link - this is also my first ruby > project. I’ll check it too > i should have this thing cleaned up enough to share soon. it’s far > from perfect, but it generally works. i seem to be crashing a lot > lately on a segmentation fault - not sure what that’s about, but i’ll > hopefully figure it out before long. I’m waiting for the link ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2011, 6:09pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/8 "2011-02-25T18:09:46Z")
2011/2/25 hendra kusuma [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > that can be controlled by global hotkey, at least command line parameter to > play/pause/next/prev. I can assign the shortcut myself I have written a ruby library to handle globalhotkeys : [http://zik.rubyforge.org/rghk](http://zik.rubyforge.org/rghk) . If you are interested give me some feedback. I am working on the next version (0.2.1). ## I have also written a audio player. You can take a look at [http://zik.rubyforge.org](http://zik.rubyforge.org) . It is my first project. I am still working on it. Vincent C. ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 2:30am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/9 "2011-02-26T02:30:49Z")
2011/2/26 hendra kusuma [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid): > > i should have this thing cleaned up enough to share soon. it’s far > > from perfect, but it generally works. i seem to be crashing a lot > > lately on a segmentation fault - not sure what that’s about, but i’ll > > hopefully figure it out before long. > > I’m waiting for the link I will also take a look. – Vincent C. ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 10:18am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/10 "2011-02-26T10:18:45Z")
On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Vincent C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > Dear J.K. You are very bold to jump to make audio player even while you are just learning programming. But I like your way to do it, really. I already graduate my college of Computer Information System 5 years ago and I never thought of making my own audio player you make me do it today Thanks also to Vincent with Zik, your code helps alot So, basically, I am now trying to make my own audio player because of you two guys and now I’m writing email this while listening to my half complete audio player playing mp3 alot need to be fixed and add, but now it already can load files from folder and play it. Shuffle also already implemented since I always listen song shuffled hopefully one day I can join you two and release mine thank you for your inspiration ---
**Author:** ![j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/e9bcb4/32.png) [@j\_k](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/j_k)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gtkwindow-auto-resizing/203680/11 "2011-02-26T15:56:15Z")
hendra kusuma wrote in post #984086: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Vincent C. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) > wrote: > > hopefully one day I can join you two and release mine > thank you for your inspiration i look forward to seeing/hearing it… have fun! -j