Re: Display simple box indicating position on mouse click?

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

Sorry Toralf,

My bad.. use Gtk::Dialog instead of Gtk::MessageDialog.

Bob

Toralf Lund wrote:

> Bob Caryl wrote:
>
> > Hey Toralf,
> >
> > You can connect a callback to your signal_button_press_event that 
> > would displaying the mouse coordinates in a Gtk::MessageDialog that 
> > has no buttons added to it and with all its decorations turned off...
>
>
> Yes. I considered that earlier, but thought I might ask first in case 
> there was an even simpler way...
>
> Anyhow, I've now tried this, and it nearly looks the way I want, but 
> there is one problem: The message dialog will also contain an icon 
> indicating the message type. I don't want that, but I can't seem to 
> find a way to disable it.
>
> >    that would make it resemble a tool tip;  and, since it would have 
> > focus, you could close it when it receives the release event.  Just a 
> > thought.
>
>
> Possibly a dumb question, but how exactly can I do that? I thought 
> that it would go away if I did
>
> msgBox.clear();
>
> after creating as
>
> Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::MessageDialog> msgBox=new Gtk::MessageDialog(*this, 
> msg, Gtk::MESSAGE_INFO, Gtk::BUTTONS_NONE);
>
> but it doesn't.
>
> > Bob Caryl
> >
> > Toralf Lund wrote:
> >
> > > In one of my applications, I'd like to display the pointer position 
> > > (within the widget) when a certain mouse button (I haven't decided 
> > > which) is clicked, in some kind of a popup box. Any suggestions 
> > > about how to achieve this? I mean, to capture the actual click and 
> > > get the position, I can probably just connect to 
> > > signal_button_press_event() - or possibly 
> > > signal_button_release_event(), but what's the best way of actually 
> > > displaying the information? Maybe I want something rather like the 
> > > standard tooltips, but I don't know how to force display of those...
> > >
> > > - Toralf
> > >
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