Programmatically Resize Traitsui Window

Question

I have a traitsui gui inheriting from HasTraits (with a HSplit between a mayavi plot and a panel with editable traits). When I call .configure_traits(), the size of the resulting window seems to depend on screen size only, not on content (on OS X 10.7 and 10.8). Is there a way to make the window (in particular the panel with the editable traits) fit the size of its content?

Answer 1

You should include a code sample that demonstrates the issue you are seeing. TraitsUI normally generates a window that is the minimum size to contain the attributes :

But if you specify a size, you'll get either an absolute size:

    view = View(Item('figure', show_label=False),
                width=400, height=300, resizable=True)

or a percentage of the screen:

    view = View(Item('figure', show_label=False),
                width=.5, height=.5, resizable=True)

depending on what you asked for. What does your code say?