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MU · Last edited by MU on Wed 05 Mar 2008, 06:00; edited 5 times in total

This is a panel on top of your screen.
See a screenshot attached in the end of this message.
Works better in Icewm than in JWM.

Description

You can drag files from your filemanager on the "drop-area" in the top left corner.
Then that file is added as a button to the Panel.
To remove a button, right-click on it.

The icons for that file are automatically detected by their mime-types.
Also the run-action is determined by mime-types, so you also can drag documents, not only executables.

Self-scripted Plugings

A special thing about this Panel is, that it can be extended by selfwritten plugins.
Look at /usr/local/GtkBasic-Panel/panel/
You have a folder "MyButtons"
The file in it looks like this:

MU · Posted: Thu 14 Feb 2008, 02:15 Post subject:

There was an error that broke the detection of correct icons.
Fixed it now.

I also replaced the buttons with eventboxes that display images.

This solves that parts of the icons were "cut off" with several Gtk-themes.
You can see it in the screenshot, that shows the old, uncorrected version.
The red Adobe-icon should be quadratic, but top and bottom are not visible, so it looks rectangular.

Another Theme-related issue was, that with some the button to show the panel was invisible.
I could fix this by resizing some elements.

And Icons now are generally scaled down to 16x16, even if a larger one is detected.

Mark

MU · Posted: Thu 14 Feb 2008, 03:47 Post subject:

there still was a small bug in masking the icon-pictures. Fixed now.
And the eventboxes allowed to make the hide-button smaller again after adding some lines of code.
Sorry for the inconvenience, but the gdk-pixbuf-library is a bit complicated Embarassed

Mark

MU · Posted: Thu 14 Feb 2008, 09:23 Post subject:

Uploaded new version.

Fixed:
Icons had a pink border after scaling.

New:
only very few themes have a nice looking toolbar.
So you now can add "skins".

Look in
/root/.GtkBasic-Panel/Panelstyles/

You can change the symlink "activestyle" to one of the included ones.
I later will add a dialog for this.

If you want no skin, delete or rename it.

The screenshot shows a skin, the bar now has a nice shiny rounded look, even if you use a Puppy standard theme.

Mark

willhunt · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

Is there a way to make it thicker? like twice as thick?

MU · Posted: Sat 16 Feb 2008, 04:09 Post subject:

No, currently not.
I will add an option for scaling.

This can take some days, as I currently overwork the Gtk-Basic interpreter, and must fix some final bugs now.

Mark

willhunt · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

I really like it but with my screen size the bar is to small
to hold my fonts. The icons are not to small Smile

I must take a refresher basic course the last time I did
basic it was 8k rom basic Embarassed

MU · Posted: Wed 05 Mar 2008, 02:56 Post subject:

I updated the dotpup (get the attachment in first message).
You also must install GtkBasic003 again, as I had to extend it:
http://puppyfiles.ca/dotpupsde/puppy3/dotpups/Programming/GtkBasic003/Gtkbasic-003.pup

Not done yet:
choosing the size.
But I work on it, see the

- Configuration:
Screenshot further down.
You now can choose different themes from a dialog

- translation:
Localization is supported now, german is included

- droparea:
now just visible, if you click on the "+" button.
The Panel looks nicer like this.

- Menu:
My new menusystem is integrated now.

This is a beta-version.
Should work ok so far, but will need some final polishing and some more tweaks like choosing the size.

Mark

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

the menu editor is empty

MU · Posted: Wed 05 Mar 2008, 15:12 Post subject:

magerlab,
the whole menu?
I think you need:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=7899

This is a "/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu" required for the categories.
Infos about it can be read here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25925

Forgot to mention it in this thread.
Does that fix it?
Mark

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

This works really well with the dwm window manager. The minimize function is really nice.

puppy3.0 / dwm window manager /xmms / mrxvt / GtkBasic-Panel

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sunburnt · Joined: 08 Jun 2005 Posts: 4006 Location: Arizona, U.S.A.

Hi Mark, very nice, we were just "talking" about using panels to clean up the desktop.
Your web site said gtkBasic was not there for download.
No worry, I`ll get it in a little while and take a look at it...

I suggested many vertical colored strips on the screen sides with vertical labels.
The same could be done for the top and bottom of the screen too of course.
To hover over one causes it`s panel to slide out from that side of the screen.
Many different special purpose panels could slide out from the screen sides.
I failed at making an example pix in MtPaint, but I think you probably get the idea.

The panels would clear the desktop by creating groups of similar icons.
Like a colored strip labeled "Drives" that pops out a panel with the HotPup icons.

I think the new V.B. IDE has something like it, it`d go great as part of gtkBasic`s IDE.
One for the widgets, one for properties, one for project control, & one for run time.

Just a train of thought I had about making panels really useful... Terry

MU · Posted: Fri 09 Oct 2009, 15:28 Post subject:

Gtkbasic is using several depreciated methods from Gtk2.
They will be no longer available in Gtk3 (2010).

This means, that Gtkbasic will not work with Gtk3.
It would be too timeconsuming to update Gtkbasic, so see it as a "dead" project.

I think the most interesting Panel at moment is the "lxpanel".
It is part of the slim LXDE Desktop, but also can be used standalone:
Newyearspup and Ultrapup use it by default.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25118
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=230812
http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00528

Mark

pankajnagarkoti85 · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 2

There was an error that broke the detection of correct icons.
Fixed it now.

I also replaced the buttons with eventboxes that display images.