Re: Problem with table packing

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Deekshit Mantampady <deekshit mantampady Wipro com> writes:

> Hi,
>   I have written on program to show a window with a menu bar in. I am
> hereby sending the function also. I main program I am calling this
> function. But when I execute it. The height of the window is more... ( I
> am using a monitor of resoulution 1200x1000). The winodw goes even
> beyond my botton border of monitor. Bu when I remove the lie
> "gtk_table_attach_defaults" is is working properly, but without the menu
> in it. Can any body hep me in this......
>
>
> The code goes like this........
>
> GtkWidget *menubar;
>   mainwindow_ = gtk_window_new(GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL);
>
>   gtk_window_set_title(GTK_WINDOW(mainwindow_), "GTK View ");
>
>   gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (mainwindow_), "delete_event",
> GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (gtk_main_quit), NULL);
>
>  gtk_window_set_default_size(GTK_WINDOW(mainwindow_), 800,600);
>
>   maintable_ = gtk_table_new (800, 600, TRUE);
                                ^^^^^^^^

These are typically rows and columns, not pixels. 

You've said "800 rows, 600 columns, all the same size".

Typically, you'd use, say, 2 rows and 2 columns, and pass
FALSE for "homogenous"
 
>   gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (mainwindow_), maintable_);
>
>
>   get_main_menu (mainwindow_, &menubar);
>
>   gtk_table_attach_defaults (GTK_TABLE(maintable_), menubar, 0, 599, 0,
> 20);

Here' you've put your menubar in the first 20 rows. This makes each
row 1/20 of the height of the menu bar, which will cause the remaining
780 rows to take up a lot of space.

I'd also advise never using gtk_table_attach_defaults(), since nobody
knows what the "defaults" are. (I don't, certainly)

Regards,
                                        Owen