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How to resize a Gdk.Pixbuf to the size of a Gtk.Image visible area

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 14:08:56 +0000

I wrote a simple image viewer that will load a photo image into a Gtk.Image widget using a Gdk.Pixbuf. I then added a tool bar with four clickable icons. Zoom out, zoom in, fit to window and original size.

All but the fit to window worked well. When I pulled the width and height from image1.GetSizeRequest(out width, out height), width & height were returned as -1. Not helpful. Google didn’t give me many clues either

What I needed was something that would provide the visible area of the Gdk.Image widget:

In order to get the visible area, we need to:

upcast Gtk.Image to a Gtk.GdkWindow
retrieve a Gdk.Region from the VisibleRegion method
retrieve the first Gdk.Rectangle from the array returned from the visibleRegion.GetRectangles method
extract the Height and Width from the Gdk.Rectangle

Now that we have the height and the width of the visible area of the Gtk.Image widget, we need to scale the image (Gdk.Pixbuf) while keeping the aspect. Assigning the image to the Gtk.Image widget will automatically redraw itself.

protected virtual void zoomToWindow (object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
if (image1.Pixbuf != null) {
int new_width, new_height;
int height = image1.Pixbuf.Height;
int width = image1.Pixbuf.Width;

Gdk.Region visibleRegion = image1.GdkWindow.VisibleRegion;
Gdk.Rectangle rectangle = visibleRegion.GetRectangles()[0];
new_height = rectangle.Height;
new_width = rectangle.Width;
scaleImage(height, width, ref new_height, ref new_width, 0);
image1.Pixbuf = pictureBuf.ScaleSimple(new_width, new_height, Gdk.InterpType.Bilinear);
}
}

There we go
While the code above is C#, the same principle goes for any language that uses Gtk.

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Jason L Froebe — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 19:42:51 +0000

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Reinstalling Beagle on Ubuntu 8.04 causes System.DllNotFoundException libgalago error

Jason L Froebe — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 22:32:32 +0000

A while back I removed the Beagle and Tracker desktop search engines from my Ubuntu 8.04. As I’ve been consolidating more and more information into my home directory, I thought I would be able to simply install Beagle.

Boy was I wrong! When I started up beagle search, I was rewarded with it dying on me:

$ beagle-search
Debug: Done reading conf from /etc/beagle/config-files/BeagleSearch.xml
Debug: Done reading conf from /home/jason/.beagle/config/Daemon.xml
Debug: Done reading conf from /etc/beagle/config-files/Daemon.xml
Exception in Gtk# callback delegate
Note: Applications can use GLib.ExceptionManager.UnhandledException to handle the exception.
System.DllNotFoundException: libgalago
at (wrapper managed-to-native) Galago.Global:galago_init (intptr,int)
at Galago.Global.Init (System.String name, InitFlags flags) [0×00000]
at Galago.Global.Init (System.String name) [0×00000]
at Beagle.Util.GalagoTools.GetPresence (System.String service_id, System.String username) [0×00000]
at Search.Tiles.IMLog.GetBuddyStatus () [0×00000]
at Search.Tiles.IMLog.GetDetails () [0×00000]
at Search.Tiles.Tile.get_Details () [0×00000]
at Search.MainWindow.ShowInformation (Search.Tiles.Tile tile) [0×00000]
at Search.GroupView.OnTileSelected (System.Object tile, System.EventArgs args) [0×00000]
at Search.Tiles.Tile.OnFocusInEvent (Gdk.EventFocus f) [0×00000]
at Gtk.Widget.focusinevent_cb (IntPtr widget, IntPtr evnt) [0×00000]
at GLib.ExceptionManager.RaiseUnhandledException(System.Exception e, Boolean is_terminal)
at Gtk.Widget.focusinevent_cb(IntPtr widget, IntPtr evnt)
at Gtk.Widget.focusinevent_cb(IntPtr , IntPtr )
at Gtk.Widget.gtk_widget_grab_focus(IntPtr )
at Gtk.Widget.gtk_widget_grab_focus(IntPtr )
at Gtk.Widget.GrabFocus()
at Search.Category.Select(Boolean focus, Boolean extended)
at Search.GroupView.Finished(Boolean grabFocus)
at Search.MainWindow.OnFinished(Beagle.FinishedResponse response)
at Beagle.Query.OnFinished(Beagle.ResponseMessage r)
at Beagle.RequestMessage.OnAsyncResponse(Beagle.ResponseMessage response)
at Beagle.Transport+EventThrowingClosure.ThrowEvent()
at GLib.Idle+IdleProxy.Handler()
at GLib.Idle+IdleProxy.Handler()
at Gtk.Application.gtk_main()
at Gtk.Application.gtk_main()
at Gtk.Application.Run()
at Gnome.Program.Run()
at Search.MainWindow.Main(System.String[] args)

I not so quickly determined I was missing libgalago-gtk1 and libgalago-gtk1.0-cil. Once I installed them, everything was working properly!

PowerBuilder 11.2 is coming out shortly

Jason L Froebe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:30:45 +0000

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The PowerBuilder 11.2 webcast will cover:

Certificate Store Support for Smart Client-published Applications
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Application Pools for Web Forms in IIS7
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AJAX Functionality for WebForm-Deployed Applications

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New developers for Sybase’s Powerbuilder 11?

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:39:53 +0000

There still seems to be a steep learning curve when it comes to Sybase’s PowerBuilder. In this specific case, PB11 is no easier.

What *I* personally would like to see is:

step by step online tutorials to create a multitude of projects – from simple ‘hello world’ applications to database connected applications to .NET to AJAX enabled .NET web apps
online videos for the new and experienced developers rather than just feature highlights
more books… from the “Beginning PowerBuilder 11″ (perhaps a ‘for Dummies’ series type book) to super advanced PB11
more podcasts ( take a look at Meet the Gimp for example format )
PowerBuilder gallery of open source and commercial PB applications (please don’t just point to the abomination known as codexchange) and online pb communities
A better tiered licensing model: Free version (take a look at Microsoft’s VB Express for a model of what should be included for free), Student (K-university) edition, Professional / Small Business, Enterprise. There should be NO feature differences between the student and enterprise editions – the only difference should be in what PB can be used for (licensing).
Open source & hobby-ist development should be actively promoted to help rebuild the PB community

Can anyone think of anything else to help new developers learn PowerBuilder?