Re: gtk2 textview widget popup

[Evan Martin <martine cs washington edu>]

On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 06:52:02PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 2- In the gtk1 version of the app I'm working on (the Bluefish html
> > editor) I already had a popup, so I guess the best thing to do is to
> > extend the already existing popup. But how can I do this? How to interact
> > with the build in text-view popup?
>
> You can override what the "popup_menu" signal does, and also intercept
> button_press_event with button == 3 in order to replace the stock
> popup.
>
> There should be a way to merge with the stock popup, but we didn't do
> that for 2.0. I think we had some idea that the new menu stuff in 2.4
> would provide a sane way to do it.
>
> (As a hack you could probably connect_after to popup_menu and
> button_press_event and append to text_view->popup_menu, or something
> like that... I guess you can't connect_after to event signals, would
> have to use the "event_after" signal or whatever it's called.)

What I use for GtkSpell (see a screenshot of the menu at 
http://gtkspell.sf.net) is 

        g_signal_connect(G_OBJECT(view), "populate-popup",
                                G_CALLBACK(populate_popup), spell);

This function looks like:
        static void
        populate_popup(GtkTextView *textview, GtkMenu *menu, GtkSpell *spell) {

and I prepend to the menu.


(You'd think this signal was designed to support this functionality or
something! :P)

-- 
      Evan Martin
martine cs washington edu
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