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8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

BarryK,
In including examples, when devx is loaded, the example in /usr/share/doc/gtkdialog3/examples called 07.02-list_actions is broken.
When it is run, the processor maxes out and the example has to be killed to recover.
So removal of that example is suggested.

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

thunor,
I noticed in the hscale/vscale code that no provision is made to add to an old scale.
So could that possibly be what is messing up the positioning on the scale of the markup text?
As an example, if I run the example you provided, the type2 scale is displayed with all the markup text on the vertical scale displayed on the same line/area.
Since each item is calling the code as a new scale, that seems to be the case.
Could a mod be made to call old scale to add marks with markup after the first item for the scale as a test?

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4718

With *scale and refreshable pixmaps, a unified tray applet is now possible using gtkdialog.... although gtkstatusicon would make it work outside of jwm (in wm without swallow capacity)

For example:
Volume, battery, CPU, memory etc...

Glade can do gtkstatusicon, but if it is deprecated perhaps it's a poor choice?

thunor · Posted: Wed 20 Jul 2011, 17:48 Post subject:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

I tend to agree that the way the code is written in gtk 2.16, there is not a whole lot one can do.
That is considering that a lot of applications Puppy uses require gtk version 2 and gtk version 3 has not assured backward compatability and would break a lot of applications.
Also, you are correct in that I too have not seen any applications at all that use the vscale.
It appears though that Zigbert has implemented a horizontal scale in Pmusic.
And, It looks really great! Good work there!

One thing that bugs me is that the original maker of gtkdialog, if it was indeed him, included an example that just flat out does not work.
It is the list_actions one.
No one even attempts to use it since it is broken.

disciple · Posted: Thu 21 Jul 2011, 01:05 Post subject:

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

It is also my understanding, maybe wrong, that /usr/doc/gtkdialog/examples is only available when you install devx for the version of Puppy you are using.
So I would suggest making it part of devx so as to keep the Puppy ISO small.

BarryK · Posted: Thu 21 Jul 2011, 08:40 Post subject:

thunor · Posted: Sun 24 Jul 2011, 18:33 Post subject:

Overhauled the menu and menuitem widgets - part 1

I've added quite a few useful things that I may as well announce now since I've got a fair amount of work left to do before the menu system is adequately updated and extended.

The "icon" tag attribute now loads icons set to 16x16 and not 20x20.
It's now possible to use the <menuitem use-stock="true" label="gtk-stock_id"> GTK property method of setting stock images as well as the easier custom stock="gtk-stock_id" method.
The menu widget now accepts tag attributes so that <menu label="_File" use-underline="true"> works.
Menu items now support accelerators using the "accel-key" and "accel-mods" custom tag attributes and both can be entered as either decimal or hexadecimal values.
Added support for the <visible> directive although it's already possible to use the GTK "sensitive" property.

The example below has got something of everything in it. Don't fail to realise that accelerators enable trapping any recognised key combination which will generate an "activate" signal which can perform some function upon some widget -- very powerful.

Submenu, checkbutton and radiobutton menuitems are to follow Smile

<menu> and <menuitem> widgets example:

Updated 2011-08-02 16:46: example superseded by http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=549591#549591.

Regards,
Thunor

BarryK · Posted: Sun 24 Jul 2011, 19:20 Post subject:

A problem!

I cannot close a child window, I have described the problem on my blog:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02366

Ages ago, I know it did work, but I can't remember if we had to do anything special, or if "closewindow" used to work. Maybe that was with gtkdialog2.

Can anyone help?

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

Barry,
See the code I left on your Blog. Patriot changed Gtkdialog a while back to support closing of a child window from the main program.
And it still works.

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4718

~line 368 of stringman.c

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

I concur with technosaurus.
As a matter of fact, we do not have a /usr/share/icons/Bluecurve directory in Puppy Lucid 520! So coding that in is not good.

thunor · Posted: Mon 25 Jul 2011, 07:28 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8627 Location: qld