Re: Problem with table packing

[Deekshit Mantampady <deekshit mantampady Wipro com>]

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Owen Taylor wrote:

> 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.

Thank you for your reply.