Re:the correct way to do pop up menus?

[halfline <halfline hawaii rr com>]

Emile wrote,

>> Is there a short answer to this question?  I've been digging through
the
>> online docs for gdk/gtk and haven't found anything that looks like
the
>> right way to do it.  I'm extending a clock widget that someone else
wrote
>> (the mygtkclock from the XFce/libs project) and want to pop up a menu
when
>> you right click the widget.  Should I be looking at the menu factory
>> stuff, or just gtk_menu_new() and adding items, or what?

If you have gnome you can do it like I did it in my program.
Here's how I did it in my program( well plugin actually ):


First you need to make a attach the button-release-event(or
button-press-event)
to a callback, somewhere:
The last argument is data that is sent as (void *) to the callback
function.
/* Attach the button-release-event to a Callback */
  gtk_signal_connect( GTK_OBJECT( ModeStatusEventBox ),
                      "button-release-event",
                      GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC( plugin_mode_status_click_callback
),
                      ( gpointer ) Daemon );



And heres the callback function:

void plugin_mode_status_click_callback( GtkWidget* ModeStatusEventBox,
                                             GdkEventButton* Button,
                                             gpointer Data )
{
  /* Pop up the Status Menu */
  gnome_popup_menu_do_popup( plugin_mode_status_menu_create( ),
                             NULL,
                             NULL,
                             NULL,
                             Data );
}




This is the function that actually contains the menus:
The third argument of each element is a pointer to the function that
will be called
when that menu item is picked.

GtkWidget* plugin_mode_status_menu_create( )
{
  GnomeUIInfo StatusMenu[] = {
    GNOMEUIINFO_ITEM( "_Online", "Online Status",
                      plugin_mode_status_menu_online_callback,
                      NULL ),
    GNOMEUIINFO_ITEM( "_Away", "Away Status",
                      plugin_mode_status_menu_away_callback,
                      NULL ),
    GNOMEUIINFO_ITEM( "_Not Available", "Not Available Status",
                      plugin_mode_status_menu_not_available_callback,
                      NULL ),
    GNOMEUIINFO_ITEM( "O_ccupied", "Occupied Status",
                      plugin_mode_status_menu_occupied_callback,
                      NULL ),
    GNOMEUIINFO_ITEM( "_Do Not Disturb", "Do Not Disturb Status",
                      plugin_mode_status_menu_do_not_disturb_callback,
                      NULL ),
    GNOMEUIINFO_ITEM( "O_ffline", "Offline Status",
                      plugin_mode_status_menu_offline_callback,
                      NULL ),
    GNOMEUIINFO_END
  };

  return gnome_popup_menu_new( StatusMenu );
}

Here is the callback function for the first menu item, repeat this for
each menu item.
void plugin_mode_status_menu_online_callback( GtkWidget* MenuWidget,
                                                    gpointer Data )
{
  CICQDaemon* Daemon = ( CICQDaemon* ) Data;

  /* Change to the new Status */
  plugin_mode_status_set( ICQ_STATUS_ONLINE, Daemon );

}

This is taken straight from my program, so you will need to modify it to
fit your program


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Halfline