Re: options menu size

[mcmahill mtl mit edu]

ahh.  thank you very much.  It works now :)

On 28 Dec 2001, Havoc Pennington wrote:

> mcmahill mtl mit edu writes:
> > When I add an options menu to a table, it ends up being too small to read
> > when you're not accessing the menu.  Ie, the currently selected option can
> > t be read.  By either making other widgets in the same table column bigger
> > or by using set_usize on the options menu, I can get it big enough, but
> > this isn't so robust when different users choose different fonts.
> >
> > So it seems as though the options menu isn't requesting enough size from
> > the table.
> >
> > Any ideas how to fix this?
>
> It's a cheesy bug - what you have to do is put the menu items in the
> GtkMenu, show the menu items (gtk_widget_show), and only then call
> gtk_option_menu_set_menu(). If you do stuff in the wrong order then 
> the option menu doesn't notice you've added new menu items and gets
> its size request wrong.
>
> Havoc