Retrieves the widget’s allocation.
Note, when implementing a layout container: a widget’s allocation will be its “adjusted” allocation, that is, the widget’s parent typically calls [[email protected]_allocate] with an allocation, and that allocation is then adjusted (to handle margin and alignment for example) before assignment to the widget. [[email protected]_allocation] returns the adjusted allocation that was actually assigned to the widget. The adjusted allocation is guaranteed to be completely contained within the [ [email protected]_allocate] allocation, however.
So a layout container is guaranteed that its children stay inside the assigned bounds, but not that they have exactly the bounds the container assigned.
| this |
a `GtkWidget` |
| allocation |
a pointer to a `GtkAllocation` to copy to |