Re: Statusbar/Menu tips info

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 09:34 -0700, Eliot Spitzer wrote:
> Well, using much time and effort I figured out how to put menu tips in
> a Gtk::Statusbar using a combination of gtkmm and libgnomeuimm. The
> scant amount of information on a subject that actually gets a lot of
> questions is amazing. Why hasn't some one written more on this? The
> one example in the libgnomeuimm package is a nice start, and what I
> worked off of, but libgnomeuimm hardly has any press, or
> documentation. It took me an exhaustive search of the list archives to
> find one mention of this library.

libgnomeui (and libgnomeuimm) is on the way to being deprecated. You
should be able to find equivalents in GTK+/gtkmm for almost everything
that is in libgnomeui.

>  Then the menu example that displays
> the statusbar messages is imperfect as the statusbar widget included
> in the example is a plain one, missing the little drag area ridges.
> However I was able to resolve this by using Gtk::Statusbar. Now I have
> a perfectly working example of this common UI action using libgtk<etc>
> C++ classes. My little victory is pretty sweet, even more so since not
> one person on this list offered any advice, not even a mention of
> libgnomeuimm. One mention of that might have saved me a week's work.
> 
> I still have some questions I hope some one can help me with. It looks
> like the menu tips are pulled from the stock Gnome menu items. Fine.
> But obviously I need to add my own items. An example of adding my own
> menu items to the libgnomeuimm menu struct would be very nice. I would
> be happy to forward my menu tips with gtk::statusbar example to anyone
> who is interested as well.

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