Menu - How to draw a menu in UPWARD direction.

x2y2z2 · **Joined:** Wed Aug 10, 2011 3:55 pm **Posts:** 6

Hi

|----------------
| Menu Item 1 |
|----------------
| Menu Item 2 |
|----------------
| Menu Item 3 |
|----------------
| Menu Btn |
|----------------------- DIALOG BOTTOM ------------

I have a simple button (touching the bottom of a dialog) and when clicked on that button,
I would like to add a popup menu that pops in the UP DIRECTION above the button as shown.

Issue is, the pop up menu displays in the DOWN direction when shown.
I tried handling this in GtkMenuPositionFun() in the gtk_menu_popup().
It works. But its getting messy there. I have to know size of each menu item to set a
starting point correctly above the button; when the Menu draws down, its bottom just
touches the button top; Also with the resolution etc. its kind of clumsy handling.

I tried "Menu bar", instead of a "Button and pop up menu". That also draws the menu down,
unless the the menu goes out of the physical screen below; then it draws up.

Requirement is, draw the menu above the button or the menu bar as shown, in the "up" direction ALWAYS!

I have found no GTK settings that can instruct the menu to draw in the UPWARD direction; be it pop up
or menu bar menus.

Can any one help?

Thank you very much!
Ganesan

iteration69 · **Joined:** Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:29 am **Posts:** 3

This is something I'm going to need to do in a few weeks and I'm not sure if it can be done without any tricks. One idea is to cap menu with a clipping region below the pointer to force the menu above, but i think this is more work than the manual approach.

Looking for hints:
http://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/tree/gtk/gtkmenu.c

gtk_menu_position() starts at line 4680

There is mention about a hint at line 4721,

Code:

* Set the type hint here to allow custom position functions
   * to set a different hint
   */
  if (!gtk_widget_get_visible (priv->toplevel))
    gtk_window_set_type_hint (GTK_WINDOW (priv->toplevel), GDK_WINDOW_TYPE_HINT_POPUP_MENU);

Around line 4744 we see:

Code:

gboolean rtl = (gtk_widget_get_direction (widget) == GTK_TEXT_DIR_RTL);

So, it is possible to change RTL and LTR packing, probably using gtk_widget_set_direction(), but that's still no good for us.

Line 4763:

Code:

* Positioning in the vertical direction is similar: first try below
       * mouse cursor, then above.

Line 4828 is the vertical code:

Code:

/* Position vertically.
       * The algorithm is the same as above, but simpler
       * because we don't have to take RTL into account.
       */
      needed_height = requisition.height - padding.top;

      if (needed_height <= space_above ||
          needed_height <= space_below)
        {
          if (needed_height <= space_below)
            y = y - padding.top;
          else
            y = y + padding.bottom - requisition.height + 1;

          y = CLAMP (y, monitor.y,
                     monitor.y + monitor.height - requisition.height);
        }
      else if (needed_height > space_below && needed_height > space_above)
        {
          if (space_below >= space_above)
            y = monitor.y + monitor.height - requisition.height;
          else
            y = monitor.y;
        }
      else
        {
          y = monitor.y;
        }

If we are lucky there is a function that will clamp space_below to 0
if we are not lucky...

Hopefully a solution shows up.

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