Method

GtkCellAreaContextget_area

Declaration [src]

GtkCellArea*
gtk_cell_area_context_get_area (
  GtkCellAreaContext* context
)

Description [src]

Fetches the GtkCellArea this context was created by.

This is generally unneeded by layouting widgets; however, it is important for the context implementation itself to fetch information about the area it is being used for.

For instance at GtkCellAreaContextClass.allocate()` time it’s important to know details about any cell spacing that theGtkCellArea` is configured with in order to compute a proper allocation.

Deprecated since:4.10

This object will be removed in GTK 5

Return value

Returns: GtkCellArea
 

The GtkCellArea this context was created by.

 The data is owned by the instance.