Re: Forcing an applet to popup its context menu

["Kevin Vandersloot" <kfv101 hotmail com>]

Basically the panelapplet library will handle to right click context menu 
automatically using panel_applet_setup_menu_from_file. You then want to do 
two things (from the cdplayer applet)

1) Connect to the button press event and copy the "button_press_hack" 
function from cdplayer.c (see line 1171 here 
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsblame.cgi?file=gnome-applets%2Fcdplayer/cdplayer.c&rev=&root=/cvs/gnome
This is a hack around a gtk bug (maybe it has been fixed since. Otherwise 
the rick click event wasn't getting sent to the applet hence the need for a 
hack)

2) Connect to the clicked event and in this callback do what you want with 
the left button.

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Kevin

> From: Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip sympatico ca>
> To: gnome-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Forcing an applet to popup its context menu
> Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 23:40:08 -0500
>
>
> I am coding an applet that shows a button in the panel.  I would
> like one action to happen when the user left-clicks the button,
> but when the user right-clicks, I would like to show the applet's
> context menu.
>
> Currently, I'm connecting the button's "button_press_event" signal
> to a callback that would be written like this:
>
> gboolean on_button_press(GtkWidget *, GdkEventButton *event, gpointer)
> {
>     if (event->button == 1)
>     {
> 	do_something();
> 	return TRUE;
>     }
>     if (event->button == 3)
>     {
> 	/* show applet context menu */
> 	return TRUE;
>     }
>     return FALSE;
> }
>
> I'd like to know how to code the second if().
>
> I see that there is the panel_applet_get_popup_component() function
> in <http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/panel-applet/panelapplet.html>,
> but then I wouldn't know what to do with the resulting BonoboUIComponent
> pointer.  Thanks.
>
> --
> Pierre Sarrazin <sarrazip at sympatico dot ca>
> _______________________________________________
> gnome-devel-list mailing list
> gnome-devel-list gnome org
> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-devel-list

_________________________________________________________________
Crave some Miles Davis or Grateful Dead?  Your old favorites are always 
playing on MSN Radio Plus. Trial month free! 
http://join.msn.com/?page=offers/premiumradio