`GtkSizeGroup` groups widgets together so they all request the same size.
This is typically useful when you want a column of widgets to have the same size, but you can’t use a `GtkGrid`.
In detail, the size requested for each widget in a `GtkSizeGroup` is the maximum of the sizes that would have been requested for each
widget in the size group if they were not in the size group. The mode of the size group (see [[email protected]_mode]) determines
whether this applies to the horizontal size, the vertical size, or both sizes.
Note that size groups only affect the amount of space requested, not the size that the widgets finally receive. If you want the widgets
in a `GtkSizeGroup` to actually be the same size, you need to pack them in such a way that they get the size they request and not more.
`GtkSizeGroup` objects are referenced by each widget in the size group, so once you have added all widgets to a `GtkSizeGroup`, you can
drop the initial reference to the size group with unref. If the widgets in the size group are subsequently
destroyed, then they will be removed from the size group and drop their references on the size group; when all widgets have been removed,
the size group will be freed.
Widgets can be part of multiple size groups; GTK will compute the horizontal size of a widget from the horizontal requisition of all
widgets that can be reached from the widget by a chain of size groups of type gtk_size_group_horizontal
or gtk_size_group_both, and the vertical size from the vertical requisition of all widgets that can be
reached from the widget by a chain of size groups of type gtk_size_group_vertical or
gtk_size_group_both.
Note that only non-contextual sizes of every widget are ever consulted by size groups (since size groups have no knowledge of what size a
widget will be allocated in one dimension, it cannot derive how much height a widget will receive for a given width). When grouping
widgets that trade height for width in mode gtk_size_group_vertical or
gtk_size_group_both: the height for the minimum width will be the requested height for all widgets in the group. The same is of
course true when horizontally grouping width for height widgets.
Widgets that trade height-for-width should set a reasonably large minimum width by way of [[email protected]:width-chars] for instance.
Widgets with static sizes as well as widgets that grow (such as ellipsizing text) need no such considerations.
GtkSizeGroup as GtkBuildable
Size groups can be specified in a UI definition by placing an <object> element with `class="GtkSizeGroup"` somewhere in the UI
definition. The widgets that belong to the size group are specified by a <widgets> element that may contain multiple <widget>
elements, one for each member of the size group. The ”name” attribute gives the id of the widget.
An example of a UI definition fragment with `GtkSizeGroup`: ```xml <object class="GtkSizeGroup"> <property name="mode">
horizontal</property> <widgets> <widget name="radio1"/> <widget name="radio2"/> </widgets> </object
> ```