Re: Toy menu program (GtkItemFactory) *gives no errors* but menu doesn't appear!? How debug?

[Christian Seberino <seberino spawar navy mil>]

Nils

Can I ask you one last question?!?!

*Everything* is working fine now and
there are *no* error messages.  I put
the menu stuff in a vbox....

I noticed that the menu looks different
than in other apps.  They seem to have
their menu bar on a nice distinct panel
that is draggable to other positions on window.

My menu bar looks flat and unattractive
and blends into other widgets since there
is *no clear border*.

Does this sound familiar??

Chris


On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 12:59:36AM +0200, Nils O. Sel?sdal wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 00:53, Christian Seberino wrote:
> > Nils
> > 
> > Thanks! I'm so glad you sent this reply!
> > I changed gtk_widget_show to gtk_widget_show_all
> > like you said and now my menus appear!!!
> > 
> > Do you know why the menubar would take over
> > the whole window? The 2 menu items "File" and "Help"
> > are huge.  It looks like one must specify size
> > of menu bar somewhere. :(
> > 
> > (I saw one example program that defined a vbox
> > and one that avoided that..... perhaps one needs
> > a vbox or something like that?! errrr. :)
> Yup.. has to do with layout.. when you have only on widget
> like here it will take all the space. Using some layout
> managers lets you specifie which widget gets the space, 
> how its used and so on. Layout is a topic of its own, I 
> suggest you read the gtk tutorial, and any other 
> GTK/Gnome docs for that.
> 
> Playing around with Glade (glade.gnome.org I think) might also
> be useful.
> 
> -- 
> Nils Olav Selåsdal <NOS Utel no>
> System Developer, UtelSystems a/s
> w w w . u t e l s y s t e m s . c o m
> 

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