Problem with the height of some widgets

[p73]

Hi. ROOTers

I am having a problem with the height of some widgets writing a GUI. For example, look at the TGComboBox at the right picture. It has the height too small. However, the code producing these frames is THE SAME, but is running on the different machines. The left frame has been produced on Ubuntu 16.04, ROOT 6.16/00; the right frame — on CentOS 7, ROOT 6.04/00. (The grey outer border is not a part of a frame). I attach the full code.Test.zip (1003 Bytes) . But here are the lines which could be helpful:

    TGGroupFrame *testGroup = new TGGroupFrame( fMainFrame, "Test", kHorizontalFrame );
    TGLabel *testLabel = new TGLabel( testGroup, "Test:" );
    TGComboBox *testCombo = new TGComboBox( testGroup );
        testCombo->AddEntry( "TEST1", 0 );
        testCombo->AddEntry( "TEST2", 1 );
        testCombo->Resize( 60, testLabel->GetDefaultHeight() );

    TGLayoutHints *groupLH = new TGLayoutHints( kLHintsTop | kLHintsExpandX, 3, 3, 3, 3 );
    TGLayoutHints *labelLH = new TGLayoutHints( kLHintsNormal, 2, 2, 2, 2 );
    TGLayoutHints *comboLH = new TGLayoutHints( kLHintsNormal, 2, 2, 2, 2 );

    testGroup->AddFrame( testLabel, labelLH );
    testGroup->AddFrame( testCombo, comboLH );
    testGroup->Resize();

    fMainFrame->AddFrame( testGroup, groupLH );

So my question is what is the generic way to set the height of a widget (particularly of a combo)?

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[bellenot]

@p73

testCombo->Resize( 60, testLabel->GetDefaultHeight() );

I would use fixed values where possible, since the default sizes might change, depending on the font used and the window manager

[p73]

@bellenot

I would use fixed values where possible

As I do in my application. Thanks for the response.