[bt-devel] Qt Only - ToolBar problem

[Gary Holmlund]

Greg Hellings 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  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  When I click the
> double arrows to the right of the navigation buttons, I get this.
> http://www.utdallas.edu/~gsh062000/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
>
> --Greg
>   
After seeing the pictures and experimenting a little, it is clear what 
is going on. The book toolbar is very full especially for books that 
require 4 comboboxes. If the BibleTime main window is about 800 pixels 
wide the toolbar has to hide some items because they won't fit. I was 
able do duplicate your pictures by sizing my window to about 820 pixels. 
The exact amount varies depending upon the width of your left docking 
windows.

You can drag the toolbar down and redock it as another toolbar. It will 
be directly below the other two small toolbars that were on the same 
line as the larger one. This will allow for a slightly smaller main 
window and may be helpful for you. It will not remember this change the 
next time it is started.

So, how to fix it. We either need a smaller navigation method or use 
toolbarbreak to add a another line for toolbars. We might be able to use 
a widget in the toolbar that shows the navigation tree style. Another 
possibility might be to add another tab to the docking windows and make 
a navigation docking window. It would be a tree style and would show the 
navigation for the currently active reading window. Other thoughts are 
welcome.

Gary