Re: About GtkToolItem

[Jody Goldberg <jody gnome org>]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 05:19:52PM +0100, Jean Brefort wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if there some plan exist to add widgets other than
> buttons in GtkToolBar with the new API in gtk+-2.3.
> I need various items such as a GtkComboBox in tool bars for GChemPaint.
> I'll probably have to derive a new object from GtkToolItem to do that,
> am I wrong?
>
> Also, I used right clicking on buttons to open option boxed fo my the
> tools. With the GtkToolButton object, using signals such as
> "button-press-event" do not work. Why?

Have a look in gnumeric/src/cut-n-paste-code/goffice/gui-utils

There are custom ToolItems and GtkAction wrappers for them