Re: Display simple box indicating position on mouse click?

[Toralf Lund <toralf procaptura com>]

Bob Caryl wrote:

> Sorry Toralf,
>
> My bad.. use Gtk::Dialog instead of Gtk::MessageDialog.

You mean, and add a Gtk::Label by hand? Yes, perhaps...

I did find a way to remove the icon, though, but it involved Gtk+ (not 
Gtkmm) functions and direct access to gobject() members...


> 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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