On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 22:40 +0900, WoodHacker wrote: > I am sure this will work, but I would rather not use glade. It > seems > rather bloated to add an XML layer to what should easily be done in > straight Ruby. I notice that in the glade code you use a > height_request property, which I have done in Ruby, but this only sets > up the initial height (and the minimal height) and does not seem to > effect enlarging the toplevel window. Why would the code work in > glade and not in Ruby? > understood -- my hope was that looking at the glade generated framework it might show a parameter/value setting, or slightly different way of building the GUI that would allow you to achieve the results you wanted.