GTK+ Api & StatusBar

Progi1984 · Post by **Progi1984** » Sat Apr 11, 2009 7:51 pm

hello all,

I'm looking for how to modify status bar and its fields with API.

Have someone some clues or code ?

walker · Post by **walker** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:24 pm

it would be very interesting, how Fred has implemented this in PB.
The GTK status bar itself only supports (AFAIK) one field.. this can be modified with

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gtk_statusbar_push ()
gtk_statusbar_pop()
gtk_statusbar_remove ()

my guess is that the parent of the statusbar is an vbox and therefore you can add textfields (or every other widget!) to this vbox if you know it's handle .... (I think, that is the way it's implemented in PB)

i will verify this in the evening (no time atm) at home ....

Post by **freak** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 1:28 pm

The PB statusbar is just a vbox with labels inside.

walker · Post by **walker** » Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:23 pm

...as I thought ... and a gtk_fixed - I guess - as otherwise no fixed length of the statusbarfields are possible...? anyway

as I found out, CreateStatusbar() returns the ID of the vbox ... so its extremely easy to create a statusbar containing all types of widgets....

a small example:

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Procedure to_utf8(txt.s)
    mem=AllocateMemory(Len(txt)*6)
    PokeS(mem,txt,-1,#PB_UTF8)
    ProcedureReturn mem
EndProcedure

OpenWindow(0,0,0,500,500,"statusbar-test",#PB_Window_SystemMenu)
st=CreateStatusBar(0,WindowID(0))

 *button2 = gtk_button_new_();
  gtk_widget_show_(*button2);
  gtk_box_pack_start_(st, *button2, #False, #False, 0);
  gtk_button_set_relief_(*button2, #GTK_RELIEF_NONE);
  
  icon=to_utf8("gtk-media-play")
  *image7 = gtk_image_new_from_stock_(icon, #GTK_ICON_SIZE_MENU);
  FreeMemory(icon)
  gtk_widget_show_(*image7);
  gtk_container_add_(*button2, *image7);
  
Repeat
Until WaitWindowEvent()=#PB_Event_CloseWindow