> You can use a GtkHandleBox GtkHandleBox works fine for my application. Thanks very much for all your help! ^_^ Bruce Cheng -- > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Vine [mailto:chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:01 AM > To: Paul Davis > Cc: Bruce; gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: How to tear off a toolbar? > > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:09:35 -0400 > Paul Davis <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. > > 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 _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
