Re: Problems adding menu to panel applet

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

On 2003.06.13 17:40, Steve Smith Smith wrote:
> Have you tried running the applet from the command line to look for 
> error messages (ie run the applet binary and add the applet to the 
> panel using the right click menu)?
So that's the way to go when you want to debug an applet?

I actually tried something like that at one stage, but the applet would 
crash when I started it that way. Maybe I didn't do it the right way? 
I'm on a different host now, so I can't test here.

Anyhow, I have now figured out what went wrong with the menu (but I 
still need debug support to investigate other issues.) It turned out 
that the fact that I put a button inside the applet caused trouble. I 
don't remember why I did it that way, but it worked in GNOME 1. After I 
removed the button and started adding widget that used to be its child 
(a pixmap) directly to the applet instead, the menu started getting 
displayed the right way. - Well nearly, I also had to adjust the XML 
tree a bit. Apparently, "<Root>" and "<popups>" shouldn't be included 
here.
 
> Regards,
> Kevin
>
>
> > From: Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>
> > To: GNOME mailing list <gnome-list gnome org>
> > Subject: Problems adding menu to panel applet
> > Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 14:44:09 +0200
> >
> > Now that I've actually been able to load my GNOME 2 applet, I want 
> > to add a menu to it. I'm trying the following:
> >
> >   static const BonoboUIVerb menuVerbs[] = {
> >     BONOBO_UI_VERB("IntranetAbout", about),
> >     BONOBO_UI_VERB_END
> >   };
> >
> >   static const char menu[]="<Root>\n"
> >     "  <popups>\n"
> >     "    <popup name=\"button3\">\n"
> >     "      <menuitem name=\"about\" verb=\"IntranetAbout\" label=
> > \"About...\"\n"
> >     "                pixtype=\"stock\" pixname=\"gnome-stock-about
> > \"/>\n"
> >     "    </popup>\n"
> >     "  </popups>\n"
> >     "</Root>\n";
> >     panel_applet_setup_menu(PANEL_APPLET(applet), menu, menuVerbs, 
> > applet);
> >
> > But it doesn't seem to work - I get no right-click menu at all, not 
> > even one containing buttons like "Remote from panel", "Move" etc.
> >
> > Can anyone tell me what's wrong?
> >
> > --
> > - Toralf
>
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