Hi,
There was a bug report about message window sizing issues that seems to be caused by the Scope plugin:
https://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/988/
I'm not sure how to "move" the ticket to the Geany-Plugins bug tracker so I'm just sending it here.
If I recall correctly from writing MultiTerm, there's a bug in VTE library where it doesn't size itself properly (maybe something related to using width in characters instead of pixels) and it goes super-huge by default.
For MultiTerm, I remember I had to perform an explicit gtk_widget_set_size_request(wid, N, N) where N was any arbitrary size smaller than expected (I think I chose 100 or 10 or something). Also, I'm not positive, but the VTE widget might also need to be placed in a GtkFrame or similar, and then into an GtkHBox with a GtkVScrollbar (using the VTE's adjustment) next to the VTE into the GtkHBox. I probably just copied how Geany did it, I don't remember for sure, but it works anyway. I could be completely wrong on the cause of the bug, I just wanted to mention since I remember fighting VTE for same issue.
Cheers, Matthew Brush
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:50:52 -0700 Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
There was a bug report about message window sizing issues that seems to be caused by the Scope plugin:
https://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/988/
I'm not sure how to "move" the ticket to the Geany-Plugins bug tracker so I'm just sending it here.
Thanks.
If I recall correctly from writing MultiTerm, there's a bug in VTE library where it doesn't size itself properly (maybe something related to using width in characters instead of pixels) and it goes super-huge by default.
Not huge, but certainly wider than a normal side panel. I simply haven't tested that.
For MultiTerm, I remember I had to perform an explicit gtk_widget_set_size_request(wid, N, N) where N was any arbitrary size smaller than expected (I think I chose 100 or 10 or something). Also, I'm not positive, but the VTE widget might also need to be placed in a GtkFrame or similar, and then into an GtkHBox with a GtkVScrollbar (using the VTE's adjustment) next to the VTE into the GtkHBox.
Mine is a scrolled window instead of frame/hbox/scrollbar, but the more likely reason is that I don't set fake initial sizes. The problem is, unlike the terminals, Scope's "Program Terminal" and "Debug Console" may emit a lot of text before being focused by the user. With fake sizes, this text is ugly wrapped, due to the small "width", and scrolled up outside the window, due to the small "height".
I'll try to find something satisfactory, and leave a comment at this bug report when finished.
On 13-08-30 01:00 PM, Dimitar Zhekov wrote:
On Thu, 29 Aug 2013 17:50:52 -0700 Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
There was a bug report about message window sizing issues that seems to be caused by the Scope plugin:
https://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/988/
I'm not sure how to "move" the ticket to the Geany-Plugins bug tracker so I'm just sending it here.
Thanks.
If I recall correctly from writing MultiTerm, there's a bug in VTE library where it doesn't size itself properly (maybe something related to using width in characters instead of pixels) and it goes super-huge by default.
Not huge, but certainly wider than a normal side panel. I simply haven't tested that.
I didn't even know the option existed before that report, what a nice surprise!
For MultiTerm, I remember I had to perform an explicit gtk_widget_set_size_request(wid, N, N) where N was any arbitrary size smaller than expected (I think I chose 100 or 10 or something). Also, I'm not positive, but the VTE widget might also need to be placed in a GtkFrame or similar, and then into an GtkHBox with a GtkVScrollbar (using the VTE's adjustment) next to the VTE into the GtkHBox.
Mine is a scrolled window instead of frame/hbox/scrollbar, but the more likely reason is that I don't set fake initial sizes. The problem is, unlike the terminals, Scope's "Program Terminal" and "Debug Console" may emit a lot of text before being focused by the user. With fake sizes, this text is ugly wrapped, due to the small "width", and scrolled up outside the window, due to the small "height".
I'll try to find something satisfactory, and leave a comment at this bug report when finished.
Cool. FYI, a similar problem seems to exist in Debugger plugin[1], even though it seems to use same "workarounds" as Geany VTE and IIRC copied by MultiTerm plugin, that don't cause the issue for whatever reason.
Cheers, Matthew Brush