[Hoary] Glade : quick newbie question

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 07:03 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> Never used Glade, just installed it from Synaptic, created a Gnome
> Project, then in the "Palette" I clicked on "GTK basic" to create window
> (I don't need a full app window, just a simple dialog window), then
> clicked on the button object to.... add a button... ;-)
> 
> Problem : I was expecting to click the top-left corner then drag the
> mouse to "draw" the button where I want it at the size I want it. BUT,
> it won't let me do that. Instead, all I can do is click in the window I
> created, and the button is created instantly and takes the ENTIRE space
> available in the window !!! Just one huge big massive giant button
> that's the size of the window... and no way to use the mouse to resize
> it afterwards, it's etched in stone. If I look in the "porperties"
> dialog, the button "should" have a "normal " size, but the reality is
> different.
> 
> Is this a bug or am I missing something ? I installed the Glad doc form
> synaptic and read it, but it leads me to believe that it should work as
> III expected, insted of the weird behaviour it shows in practice. 
> 
> Any help from a succesful Glade Haory user would be much appreciated...
> 
> --
> Vince


RTFM... nothing in the user manual, but in the FAQ, I found the answer
to my exact question, it was the number one question in the FAQ
actually...
Oh well, you've got to start somewhere ;o)


--
Vince