Re: Display simple box indicating position on mouse click?

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

Hey Toralf,

You can connect a callback to your signal_button_press_event that would 
displaying the mouse coordinates in a Gtk::MessageDialog that has no 
buttons added to it and with all its decorations turned off...   that 
would make it resemble a tool tip;  and, since it would have focus, you 
could close it when it receives the release event.  Just a thought.

Bob Caryl

Toralf Lund wrote:

> In one of my applications, I'd like to display the pointer position 
> (within the widget) when a certain mouse button (I haven't decided 
> which) is clicked, in some kind of a popup box. Any suggestions about 
> how to achieve this? I mean, to capture the actual click and get the 
> position, I can probably just connect to signal_button_press_event() - 
> or possibly signal_button_release_event(), but what's the best way of 
> actually displaying the information? Maybe I want something rather 
> like the standard tooltips, but I don't know how to force display of 
> those...
>
> - Toralf
>
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