Re: Can't make a popup menu popup from a GtkStatusIcon

[Bill Farmer <williamjfarmer tiscali co uk>]

Thanks, I thought it was something simple like that.

Bill

Mike Massonnet wrote:
> After building the menu, and before poping it up, call
> gtk_widget_show_all() on the menu.
>
> 2009/6/19 Bill Farmer <williamjfarmer tiscali co uk>:
>   
> > I'm using GtkStatusIcon, GtkMenu, and GtkCheckMenuItem to create a status
> > icon with a popup menu. The code appears to be working in that a small
> > rectangular empty box pops up in exactly the right place under the status
> > icon, but I can't get any content in the menu. I've tried adding extra menu
> > items which makes no difference. Am I missing something? The relevant code
> > is below:
> >
> >   // Create a menu
> >
> >   GtkWidget *menu = gtk_menu_new();
> >   GtkWidget *item = gtk_check_menu_item_new_with_label("Don't show this
> > again");
> >   gtk_menu_shell_append(GTK_MENU_SHELL(menu), item);
> >
> >     
>
> Somewhere like here for instance:
>
>     gtk_widget_show_all (menu);
>
>   
> >   g_signal_connect(item, "activate", G_CALLBACK(menu_item_activate), NULL);
> >
> >   // Create a status icon
> >
> >   GtkStatusIcon *icon = gtk_status_icon_new_from_icon_name("application");
> >   gtk_status_icon_set_tooltip_text(icon,
> >                  "Keyboard auto repeat temporarily disabled");
> >
> >   g_signal_connect(icon, "popup-menu",
> >            G_CALLBACK(icon_popup_menu), menu);
> >
> >   // Show the status icon
> >
> >   gtk_status_icon_set_visible(icon, TRUE);
> > ...
> > // Icon popup menu
> >
> > int icon_popup_menu(GtkStatusIcon *icon, uint button, uint time, GtkMenu
> > *menu)
> > {
> >   gtk_menu_popup(menu, NULL, NULL,
> >          gtk_status_icon_position_menu,
> >          icon, button, time);
> > }
> >
> > Bill
> >     
>
> Mike
>
>