On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Chris Vine <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 03:18:09 +0800 > "Bruce" <bruce1914@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list