[bt-devel] Qt Only - ToolBar problem

[Gary Holmlund]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Greg Hellings <greg.hellings at gmail.com>wrote:

> Gary,
>
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Gary Holmlund <gary.holmlund at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Eeli Kaikkonen wrote:
> >>
> >> On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Greg Hellings wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I see the Back/Forward navigation buttons, and then a wide, empty
> >>> space all the way over to the vertical separator.  Next to that is a
> >>> double-down arrow (the sort you expect to see when there is a More...
> >>> selection) which, when clicked, provides me with the drop-down boxes
> >>> for navigating the text on a separate line directly below the
> >>> Back/Forward.  Selecting a key to navigate to causes the text to
> >>> change to the desired entry properly, but the second line with the
> >>> choosers then disappears again, and I have to click the double down
> >>> arrow again to navigate away from the new page.  All the tools are
> >>> there as they should be, its just that they seem to expand out and
> >>> require their own row in the layout, which then requires the selection
> >>> of the More... button to show them.  Clearly it's a "feature" of the
> >>> Mac-ness of it.  If my description isn't clear, I can give you a
> >>> screenshot when I fire the Mac up again.
> >>>
> >>
> >> It may have something to do with QMainWindow ToolbarBreak which I have
> >> used in the code. It just doesn't work as expected even on Linux. I'd
> >> like to divide the toolbars into two rows because one row is almost
> >> always too narrow for them all. Does Gary know anything about this?
> >>
> >
> > The ToolBarBreak is used to move to the next toolbar row so that when
> > another toolbar is added it is on a lower row rather than to the right of
> > the last toolbar.
> >
> > From Greg's description it seems the problem is happening with a single
> > toolbar. It seems to be between the left/right history buttons and the
> first
> > navigation combobox. It seems like something on the toolbar is expanding
> to
> > much and pushing remaining items off the toolbar to the right. I am not
> sure
> > what would be doing this.
> >
> > Greg, here is an experiment. If you look just to the left of the
> left/right
> > history arrows you should see  a couple of vertical bars. These are a
> > "handle" for the toolbar. If you put your mouse on these and drag, the
> > toolbar will move and float by itself. When I do this the left/right
> history
> > and the combo boxes move together and the combo boxes are a reasonable
> size.
> > I am wondering if your floating toolbar becomes extra long? If so, can
> you
> > describe it a little further.
>
> For the Summa Theologica (from beta), here is what the bar looks like.
> http://www.utdallas.edu/~gsh062000/pictures/p1.png<http://www.utdallas.edu/%7Egsh062000/pictures/p1.png> Of course,
> SummaTheologica crashes whenever I select a passage, which I suspect
> to be a module problem, since AquinasSummaTheologica works.  When I
> open Josephus, though, this is what the bar looks like.
> http://www.utdallas.edu/~gsh062000/pictures/p2.png<http://www.utdallas.edu/%7Egsh062000/pictures/p2.png> When I click the
> double arrows to the right of the navigation buttons, I get this.
> http://www.utdallas.edu/~gsh062000/pictures/p3.png<http://www.utdallas.edu/%7Egsh062000/pictures/p3.png> When I drag that
> portion of the bar out on its own, here is what it looks like
> http://www.utdallas.edu/~gsh062000/pictures/p4.png<http://www.utdallas.edu/%7Egsh062000/pictures/p4.png>
>
> --Greg


Greg, this makes me think that your window is just not wide enough for the
whole toolbar. You can probably drag the other toolbars that are just to the
right of the one I asked you to drag. Place them just below the current
toolbars such that they dock with the other toolbars. You would then be able
to see all toolbars.

We probably need to make our toolbar more friendly for narrow windows. I
will consider what to do about that.

Gary
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