Tabs incorrect behavior (tab bar filling widget space) when combined with window menus

[TheQuantumPhysicist]

This issue is based on a discussion thread. I was asked to open it.

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Hello

I combined the menu example with the tabs example, but the result seems to be faulty somehow. The tabs bar fills the whole screen no matter what. I tried to change everything possible (even removing the icons altogether), but nothing helped.

Please find a minimal reproducible example in this repo: https://github.com/TheQuantumPhysicist/IcedTabsTest

build and run with cargo run. On some of my machines I needed to install libfontconfig-dev.

Thank you and have a great day.

[TheQuantumPhysicist]

Can someone please confirm that this is a bug? I was told to put this in here but never got that confirmation.

[genusistimelord]

sorry been a bit busy. I will take a look when I get some time.

[genusistimelord]

seems changing the view to be

pub fn view(
        &self,
        backend_controller: &NodeBackendController,
    ) -> Element<'_, Message, iced::Renderer> {
        let c = iced::widget::column![
            iced::widget::row!(self.main_menu
                .view(backend_controller)
                .map(Message::MenuMessage)),
                iced::widget::row!(self.main_widget
                .view(backend_controller)
                .map(Message::MainWidgetMessage))
        ];

        c.into()
    }
    

fixes the issue. This might be because the Menu and other Views cant be within a column together if they are Fill or what not. Please give this a try and let me know what else might need to be looked at.

[TheQuantumPhysicist]

Yep. This fixes the issue. Thank you!

My opinion: This should be disallowed at compile-time with type-safety. There should be a class of types allowed in column! and row! that only lead to correct results.

Feel free to close this issue, or keep it open to address this problem with type-safety. Cheers!