Re: How to find width of a menubar?

["Marco Scholten" <mscholtn xs4all nl>]

> I have a menubar in a toolbar item, with buttons on either side. I have no
> idea how wide this menu will be, and I find if it gets too wide,  first
> the buttons go into an overflow menu, and then the menubar dissapears
> altogether.
>
> If I knew the width of the menubar, I could modify its contents so
> everything stays visable.
>
> How could I do that? How could I check the width it will be rendered at?
>
> -Sud.

you can get the size of a widget by getting the size of its onderlying 
Gdk::Window.

 int width,height;
 MyMenubar.get_window()->get_size(width,height);