How do I get the size of a Gtk widget?

Question

I am developing an app using Quickly + Glade + Gtk + Python. I would have liked to know the size of a displayed widget. Here is what I wrote already:

from gi.repository import Gtk, WebKit
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self.webview = WebKit.WebView()
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print self.webview.size_request()

I had expected a tuple in the form of (100px, 200px) for example. But what I get instead is <GtkRequisition at 0x24607c0>. Why is that? What should I do instead?

It seems that the answer is here, but I unfortunately don't understand it.

Answer 1

You probably will want to use width = widget.get_allocation().width to get the width and height = widget.get_allocation().height to get the height as there is a difference between a widgets requested size and it's actual size.