Re: GtkImageMenuItem size incorrect

["Gaurav Jain" <gaurav anywhere gmail com>]

On 5/6/07, David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:
> On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 10:22:52AM +0530, Gaurav Jain wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to create some GtkImageMenuItems in the menu of my
> > application, and I found strange sizing issues.
> >
> > I noticed that even if the height of the GtkImage that is added to the
> > menu item is 16 pixels, the actual height of the menu item that is
> > shown on the screen is dependent on the width of the GtkImage.  In
> > other words, if I have a GtkImage of 32 X 16 added to the menu item,
> > the height of the entire menu item becomes around 32 pixels.
> >
> > This is strange behavior, as I expected the height to remain at around
> > 16 pixels since the GtkImage's height is only 16.  If in the same menu
> > I add other menu items without any GtkImage then their height is
> > normal.
> >
> > Is this a GTK bug?  Is there a workaround that I can use to ensure
> > that the height of the menu item doesn't increase unnecessarily?
>
> The height requested is something like max(height, width).
> It has been `working' this way since Gtk+ 2.4 (and it broke
> my apps at that time).  It seems to be already reported:
>
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336031
>
> I suppose everyone affected just shrugs and packs an image
> + label to the menu item himself instead of using
> GtkImageMenuItem (that's what I do too).
>
> Yeti
Thanks Yeti for the information!  One more help please - could you
please tell me how to pack an image + Label to a GtkMenuItem?  I'm
unsure how you managed this, because if I try to replace the existing
child label in the GtkMenuItem with a hbox containing both an image
and label it doesn't work.

Thanks again!
Gaurav