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. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ gtkmm-list mailing list gtkmm-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtkmm-list
