Re: [Vala] Genie, subclassing and some help!

[Andrew <rugby471 gmail com>]

On 02/07/10 18:25, Andrew wrote:
> On 30/06/10 14:41, Harry Van Haaren wrote:
> > Aha, fully understand the problem now at least. Do you have one of these
> > "appIndicator" dock things in your panel?  The following document [1] seems
> > to say that they might re-design/ change some things in how the docks work.
> >
> > I'm running LXDE, (no fancy AppIndicator dock I dont think...).
> >
> > What I suggest is that your compile using valac --save-temps  (provides
> > C output files),
> > check that against the documentation of LibAppIndicator.
> >
> > I have no experience with LibAppIndicator and hence can't really help
> > you much there.
> >
> > If it turns out that it should work, please send me sources and I can
> > try it on my LXDE.
> > -Harry
> >
> > PS: There was/is quite some controversy about libappindicator, see [2].
> > I'm not sure
> > if this helps dev-s to write documentation & test cases... I havent
> > found any. Getting in
> > touch with the authors or LibAppIndicator might be a good idea.. ? Up to
> > you.
> >
> > [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators
> > [2] http://www.advogato.org/person/mbanck/diary.html?start=49
> >
> >
> >     Sure, the window popus (which is correct), however the application
> >     indicator does not appear.
>
> Okay, so I spoke to the authors of appindicator and they couldn't work
> it out, a bit of a mystery, so instead of subclassing, I am just using a
> function to create a standard Indicator.
>
> One problem I have come up with now is more alarming, my code is as follows:
>
>
> uses
>     Gtk
>     AppIndicator
>
> class wMain : GLib.Object
>
>     main_window : MainWindow
>
>     init
>         main_window = new MainWindow()
>
>         var indicator = new
> Indicator("wasiliana","applications-utilities", Category.APPLICATION_STATUS)
>         indicator.set_status(Status.ATTENTION)
>         indicator.set_attention_icon ("indicator-messages-new")
>
>         var menu = new Menu()
>         var show_menuitem = new CheckMenuItem.with_label("Show Wasiliana")
>         menu.append(show_menuitem)
>         menu.show_all()
>         indicator.set_menu(menu)
>
>       //Gtk.main()
>
>         main_window.show_all()
>
> init
>     Gtk.init (ref args)
>     var w = new wMain()
>     Gtk.main()
>
>
> Now unless I uncomment the //Gtk.main(), the indicator doesn't show. I
> don't know what the problem is, but one of the authors said it might be
> something to do with references (but I have no idea what these are)
>
> Any help?

Don't worry got it solved, indicator was being lost (a local variable)
and so I had to bind it as a property of the class and now even
subclassing works!

Thanks everyone!

-- 
Andrew