Functions

Types and Values

Object Hierarchy

    GObject
    ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰── CtkWidget
            ╰── CtkContainer
                ╰── CtkFixed

Implemented Interfaces

CtkFixed implements AtkImplementorIface and CtkBuildable.

Includes

#include <ctk/ctk.h>

Description

The CtkFixed widget is a container which can place child widgets at fixed positions and with fixed sizes, given in pixels. CtkFixed performs no automatic layout management.

For most applications, you should not use this container! It keeps you from having to learn about the other CTK+ containers, but it results in broken applications. With CtkFixed, the following things will result in truncated text, overlapping widgets, and other display bugs:

In addition, CtkFixed does not pay attention to text direction and thus may produce unwanted results if your app is run under right-to-left languages such as Hebrew or Arabic. That is: normally CTK+ will order containers appropriately for the text direction, e.g. to put labels to the right of the thing they label when using an RTL language, but it can’t do that with CtkFixed. So if you need to reorder widgets depending on the text direction, you would need to manually detect it and adjust child positions accordingly.

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.

If you know none of these things are an issue for your application, and prefer the simplicity of CtkFixed, by all means use the widget. But you should be aware of the tradeoffs.

See also CtkLayout, which shares the ability to perform fixed positioning of child widgets and additionally adds custom drawing and scrollability.

Functions

CtkWidget *
ctk_fixed_new (void);

void
ctk_fixed_put (CtkFixed *fixed,
               CtkWidget *widget,
               gint x,
               gint y);

void
ctk_fixed_move (CtkFixed *fixed,
                CtkWidget *widget,
                gint x,
                gint y);

Types and Values

struct CtkFixed;

See Also

CtkLayout