RE: How to tear off a toolbar?

["Bruce" <bruce1914 uestc edu cn>]

> You can use a GtkHandleBox
GtkHandleBox works fine for my application.

Thanks very much for all your help! ^_^
	

Bruce Cheng
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Vine [mailto:chris cvine freeserve co uk]
> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:01 AM
> To: Paul Davis
> Cc: Bruce; gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: How to tear off a toolbar?
> 
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:09:35 -0400
> Paul Davis <paul linuxaudiosystems com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Chris Vine
> > <chris cvine freeserve co uk> wrote:
> > > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:18:09 +0800
> > > "Bruce" <bruce1914 uestc edu cn> wrote:
> > >>       Can anyone tell me how can I tear off a toolbar?
> > >>       I can tear off a menu using gtk_tearoff_menu_item_new, but I
> > >> still want to get a toolbar that can be tear off from the main
> > >> window and attach to it again.
> > >
> > > You can use a GtkHandleBox (or at least you certainly used to be
> > > able to do so - I used it for that purpose some years ago but it
> > > has gone out of fashion now, for good reason in my view).
> >
> > the HB leaves space behind ... not so great.
> >
> > i looked at sodipodi years ago for inspiration because they had real
> > tearoffs - remove them and the space they occupied vanishes until
> they
> > are reattached. ardour uses a C++ implementation of the same idea.
> its
> > fairly complex too implement.
> 
> For a toolbar I don't think this really matters.  At any rate it didn't
> particularly bother me in the use to which I put it.  But as a GUI
> design, tearoff toolbars seem to me to be a poor choice anyway.  I
> agree though that for the purposes for which ardour is likely to use
> tearoffs, collapsing the space is probably essential.
> 
> Chris