Panel Applet Menu

Hi all!

I have developed a panel applet, and it seems to work fine, but I am
missing the popup menu when I right-click on the menu.

I do get the following warning after a while:

(simple_applet.rb:4227): Bonobo-WARNING **: Never got frame, control
died - abnormal exit condition

What do I have to do to get the popup-menu working?

I there a tutorial for the panel applet? …or a sample panel applet?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

My code follows:

class SimpleApplet
def initialize(applet, iid)
@applet = applet
@iid = iid

@label = Gtk::Label.new("Hello World")
@button = Gtk::Button.new
@button.relief = Gtk::RELIEF_NONE
@button.add(@label)
@applet.add(@button)
@applet.show_all

@button.signal_connect("clicked") do |w|
  Thread.start do
    do_stuff
  end
end

Thread.start do
  do_stuff
end

end

private
def do_stuff
@label.label = “Working”
# lots of nifty business logic here
@label.label = “Done”
end

end

init = proc do |applet, iid|
SimpleApplet.new(applet, iid)
true
end

oafiid = OAFIID
run_in_window = (ARGV.length == 1 && ARGV.first == “run-in-window”)
oafiid += “_debug” if run_in_window

PanelApplet.main(oafiid, “Simple Applet (Ruby-GNOME2)”, “0”, &init)

if run_in_window
main_window = Gtk::Window.new
main_window.set_title “Simple Applet”
main_window.signal_connect(“destroy”) { Gtk::main_quit }
app = PanelApplet.new
init.call(app, oafiid)
app.reparent(main_window)
main_window.show_all
puts “Main Window”; STDOUT.flush
Gtk::main
puts “Finished Window”; STDOUT.flush
end


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Am Samstag, den 04.03.2006, 13:39 +0100 schrieb Uwe K.:

Hi all!

I have developed a panel applet, and it seems to work fine, but I am
missing the popup menu when I right-click on the menu.

Hi,

i’ve never made applets in ruby, only in C but i think your problem is
the button, that fills the applet and which grabs the button-press
events.

Try it only with the label and see if the menu then opens.

HTH
detlef

@button.add(@label)
@applet.add(@button)

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Am Samstag, den 04.03.2006, 17:34 +0100 schrieb Uwe K.:

Thanks a lot for your answer.

You were right. When I tried it with only the label, the menu opened
correctly. Do you know how I can combine a button with a menu? Is it
possible to forward the right-clicked event to the parent? …or maybe
not intercept it at all?

AFAIK you had to change the implementation of the Gtk Button and that
would change the behaviour of all buttons.

For most applets you’ll don’t need this. If you only want to respond to
left-clicks just enable the button-press-event in you label.

If you think that you’ll need a button, pleas explain what you want to
do.

Cheers
detlef


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On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 14:25 +0100, Detlef R. wrote:

I have developed a panel applet, and it seems to work fine, but I am
missing the popup menu when I right-click on the menu.

i’ve never made applets in ruby, only in C but i think your problem is
the button, that fills the applet and which grabs the button-press
events.

Try it only with the label and see if the menu then opens.

Thanks a lot for your answer.

You were right. When I tried it with only the label, the menu opened
correctly. Do you know how I can combine a button with a menu? Is it
possible to forward the right-clicked event to the parent? …or maybe
not intercept it at all?

Uwe


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On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 23:48 +0100, Uwe K. wrote:

I would like the same for my applet. Is it possible? If so, how?

Sure, that’s easy.

One way you can do this:

Put your label into a frame and the frame into a eventbox. Connect the
eventbox to the button-press-, the enter- and the leave-event.

You need the eventbox, cause the label and the frame are both
no-window-widgets. That means they don’t own an Gdk::Window but draw on
there parent window and as a side effect can’t recive events.

Initialize the frame with ShadowType = None. The callback for your
enter-event changes the ShadowType to In and the leave-event back to
None.

In your button-press-event handler you have to check which button is
pressed. If its the left one popup your window, for the right one you
have to foreward the event to the original handler, else the menu would
not appear.

Cheers
detlef


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On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 23:39 +0100, Detlef R. wrote:

You were right. When I tried it with only the label, the menu opened
correctly. Do you know how I can combine a button with a menu? Is it
possible to forward the right-clicked event to the parent? …or maybe
not intercept it at all?

AFAIK you had to change the implementation of the Gtk Button and that
would change the behaviour of all buttons.

Hopefully not :slight_smile:

For most applets you’ll don’t need this. If you only want to respond to
left-clicks just enable the button-press-event in you label.

If you think that you’ll need a button, pleas explain what you want to
do.

I would like to have my applet look and behave similarly to the Clock
applet. When you let your mouse pointer hover over the Clock applet,
the applet is outlined and you can press it like a button. I you
right-click it, you get the context menu.

I would like the same for my applet. Is it possible? If so, how?

Uwe


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