#1 MOOSE TreeViewer toolbar gets cut off when too narrow

[Anna Wojtowicz]

When you resize the MOOSE TreeViewer, the add/delete child buttons get cut off. It looks like this is partially due to the dropdown box being a fixed width. Ideally, this toolbar should automatically resize instead of forcing the user to increase its width to access these buttons.

[Jordan Deyton]

I've taken a look at this briefly. It looks like a similar problem to the one I had with resizing the Properties View so that the TableViewer fills it, it's just trickier because this is part of a ToolBar rather than just nested Composites.

[Jordan Deyton]

I finally figured out a solution for this by adding a listener for resize events to the CTabFolder containing the MOOSETreeCompositeViewer's ToolBar. Unfortunately, there appear to be some limitations with CTabFolder layouts, so I had to do some hacks (like reverting to a previous layout to determine the max available horizontal space).

It successfully wraps on win32 and cocoa, but for some reason I can't get the CTabFolder to update its layout on gtk.

[Jordan Deyton]

As far as I can tell it only does this for gtk. I successfully got it to
wrap those two buttons down on win32 and cocoa. In any case, I'll try to
come up with a better way to have that dropdown there.

On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Alex McCaskey amccaskey@users.sf.net
wrote:

• Priority: 1 --> 7

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• [moosebugs:#1] http://sourceforge.net/p/niceproject/moosebugs/1 MOOSE
  TreeViewer toolbar gets cut off when too narrow*

Status: open
Milestone: 2.0
Created: Thu Sep 18, 2014 03:28 PM UTC by Anna Wojtowicz
Last Updated: Wed Oct 15, 2014 05:39 PM UTC
Owner: Jay Jay Billings

When you resize the MOOSE TreeViewer, the add/delete child buttons get cut
off. It looks like this is partially due to the dropdown box being a fixed
width. Ideally, this toolbar should automatically resize instead of forcing
the user to increase its width to access these buttons.

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[Jordan Deyton]

I think I figured out how to do this. I might also play around with a button with a menu, too, to see if that works any better.

[Jordan Deyton]

It looks like GTK will not support wrapping in ToolBars any time soon:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135287

I've got some code that works for resizing the Combo, but due to some layout refresh issues with the underlying CTabFolder, I had to limit the size of the Combo to fit the phrase "MOOSE app..." However, it will first wrap the ToolBar items and then shrink the Combo depending on how much space is available.

Since this won't work well on gtk, I'm going to try making a dropdown menu with some checkbox/radio buttons. I'll try to abstract it so I can re-use it elsewhere (i.e., in the Reactor Analyzer).