[bt-devel] Qt Only - ToolBar problem

[Gary Holmlund]

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.

Gary