Re: how to do stuff with tray icons?

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Friday, June 4, 2004, at 03:03 PM, Cristóvão B. B. Dalla Costa wrote:

> I've successfully created a tray icon using the sample script in 
> Gtk::TrayIcon's manpage, but I cannot seem to get signals working. I 
> wish to be able to connect a signal to the display widget (in this 
> case, the example text label) so that when the user click a button I 
> can open a window or display a menu. However, many different attempts 
> to connect signals to both the widget and the tray object did not 
> result in the signal handler being called.

Gtk2::Label does not have a GdkWindow, so it can't get events.  
Instead, pack the Label into a Gtk2::EventBox, and connect the signals 
to the EventBox.



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