How to make a vertical toolbar in GTK?

[resander]

I am new to GTK and have difficulties in placing a vertical toolbar. I want it to occupy about 20% of the window on the left-hand side, but each toolbar item spans most of the window horizontally and is centered with a lot of blank space on either side.
I want the width of vertical toolbar to be the width of an icon plus a few pixels of margin around it.

Here is the problem as a minimal example:



window = gtk_window_new ( GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL ) ;
gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (window), "Vertical Toolbar" ) ;
gtk_widget_set_size_request (window, 450,300 ) ; // works

GtkWidget * box = gtk_hbox_new (TRUE, 0);

GtkWidget * toolbar = gtk_toolbar_new ();
gtk_widget_set_size_request (toolbar, 50,300 ) ; // doesn't work

gtk_toolbar_set_orientation( (GtkToolbar *)toolbar ,
GTK_ORIENTATION_VERTICAL ) ;
gtk_toolbar_set_icon_size ( (GtkToolbar *)toolbar , GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR ) ;
gtk_toolbar_set_style ( (GtkToolbar *)toolbar , GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS ) ;

GtkToolItem * gtkimg = gtk_tool_button_new_from_stock ( GTK_STOCK_CUT ) ;
gtk_toolbar_insert( GTK_TOOLBAR(toolbar) , gtkimg , -1 ) ;

gtkimg = gtk_tool_button_new_from_stock ( GTK_STOCK_COPY ) ;
gtk_toolbar_insert( GTK_TOOLBAR(toolbar) , gtkimg , -1 ) ;

gtkimg = gtk_tool_button_new_from_stock ( GTK_STOCK_PASTE ) ;
gtk_toolbar_insert( GTK_TOOLBAR(toolbar) , gtkimg , -1 ) ;

gtk_box_pack_start_defaults (GTK_BOX (box), toolbar ) ;

gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), box);

gtk_widget_show_all (window);
gtk_main ();


It seems the size request gtk_widget_set_size_request (toolbar, 50,300 ) is ignored. My intent was to reserve 50 pixels for the the toolbar leaving 400 pixels for the neighbour(s) on the right-hand side, but it didn't work out like that.

How to modify the code above so the vertical toolbar comes out looking right?

[PmDematagoda]

I managed to get what I think is what you want, using this code:-

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

int main (int argc, char *argv[]){

GtkWidget *window;

gtk_init (&argc, &argv);

window = gtk_window_new ( GTK_WINDOW_TOPLEVEL ) ;
gtk_window_set_title (GTK_WINDOW (window), "Vertical Toolbar" ) ;
gtk_widget_set_size_request (window, 450,300 ) ; // works

GtkWidget * box = gtk_hbox_new (FALSE, 0);
GtkWidget *n_box = gtk_hbox_new (TRUE, 0);

GtkWidget * toolbar = gtk_toolbar_new ();
gtk_widget_set_size_request (box, 30,30 ) ; // doesn't work

gtk_toolbar_set_orientation( (GtkToolbar *)toolbar ,
GTK_ORIENTATION_VERTICAL ) ;
gtk_toolbar_set_icon_size ( (GtkToolbar *)toolbar , GTK_ICON_SIZE_SMALL_TOOLBAR ) ;
gtk_toolbar_set_style ( (GtkToolbar *)toolbar , GTK_TOOLBAR_ICONS ) ;

GtkToolItem * gtkimg = gtk_tool_button_new_from_stock ( GTK_STOCK_CUT ) ;
gtk_toolbar_insert( GTK_TOOLBAR(toolbar) , gtkimg , -1 ) ;

gtkimg = gtk_tool_button_new_from_stock ( GTK_STOCK_COPY ) ;
gtk_toolbar_insert( GTK_TOOLBAR(toolbar) , gtkimg , -1 ) ;

gtkimg = gtk_tool_button_new_from_stock ( GTK_STOCK_PASTE ) ;
gtk_toolbar_insert( GTK_TOOLBAR(toolbar) , gtkimg , -1 ) ;

gtk_box_pack_start (GTK_BOX (box), toolbar, FALSE,FALSE,4 ) ;
gtk_box_pack_start_defaults (GTK_BOX (box), n_box ) ;

gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), box);

gtk_widget_show_all (window);
gtk_main ();

return 0;

}
please note that gtk_box_pack_start_defaults() is deprecated and should not be used in the future.

[resander]

Many thanks!

I understand how it works now. Wouldn't have guessed it in a hundred years.

I am still thinking in terms of explicit positioning of graphical elements after more than 10 years of conditioning with the Windows GUI, HTML and SVG. Need to have my brain refurbished.