Re: ComboBox in Toolbar

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Sep 3, 2006, at 12:06 PM, Dieter Schicker wrote:

> I designed a window with a toolbar on top (see attached screenshot)
> which contains a combo box. When you look at the screenshot you can  
> see
> that the height of the combo box is different from e.g. the height of
> the text entry. How can I achieve that the combo box has the same  
> height
> as the other toolbaritems? I already tried setting the height  
> explicitly
> but with no success.

That's a trick question!  Your problem is that the combobox *is*  
taking the height of the other toolbar items.  The toolbar items are  
essentially packed into a horizontal box, which manages the  
horizontal space but allots all vertical space in the box to  
children.  The Entry centers its content within its vertical space,  
but the ComboBox does not --- since your ComboBox's CellRenderer may  
want to do something big, the ComboBox just fills the available  
space.  (I think this changed a couple of versions ago.)

So, as icky as it may seem, try placing the ComboBox inside an  
Alignment.


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