You can use gtk.TreeViewColumn.set_resizable(True)it to resize a column manually ... except for the last column - it always takes up available space.
Although in most cases this is reasonable, I use TreeView-in-a-ScrolledView and I would like to be able to shrink / expand the last column.
I am currently using the following kludge:
def add_dummy_column(treeview):
def put_dummy_last(treeview, dummy):
columns = treeview.get_columns()
last = next(reversed(columns), None)
if not last or last == dummy:
return
if dummy in columns:
treeview.move_column_after(dummy, last)
else:
treeview.append_column(dummy)
dummy = gtk.TreeViewColumn()
dummy.set_min_width(1)
dummy.set_fixed_width(1)
dummy.set_sizing(gtk.TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_FIXED)
dummy.set_resizable(False)
dummy.set_expand(False)
treeview.connect('columns-changed', put_dummy_last, dummy)
return dummy
However, this dummy column tends to always interfere: it complicates the outlines of TreeView columns, etc. Is there a better / more elegant solution?
Update: it really works
When trying to create a minimal example, I found that it works fine without my kludge. Here is a minimal example without gtk.ScrolledWindow:
import gtk
window = gtk.Window()
window.connect('destroy', lambda *args: gtk.main_quit())
vbox = gtk.VBox()
window.add(vbox)
table = gtk.TreeView(gtk.ListStore(str, str, str))
for i in range(3):
column = gtk.TreeViewColumn('Column {}'.format(1 + i))
column.set_resizable(True)
column.set_sizing(gtk.TREE_VIEW_COLUMN_FIXED)
column.set_min_width(20)
column.set_fixed_width(80)
column.set_expand(False)
table.append_column(column)
vbox.pack_start(table)
vbox.pack_start(gtk.Statusbar(), False)
window.set_default_size(300, 300)
window.show_all()
gtk.main()
Try decreasing the last column - this is not possible. However, if you change
vbox.pack_start(table)
to
container = gtk.ScrolledWindow()
vbox.pack_start(container)
container.add(table)
.