ruby-gnome2: catching middle clicks on tabs

[Clayton Smith]

What I am trying to do is capture the button-press-event when a person
middle-clicks on a tab(similar to how Firefox tabs work). As I learned
in #gtk+ using the EventBox should be able to do this
After a quick scouting of the web for an example, I found this:
http://www.async.com.br/faq/pygtk/index.py?req=show&file=faq17.003.htp

Unfortunately, I had problems with what I came up with. By using the
following, when middle clicking on any of the tabs it finds the
page_num to be -1 ..
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#!/usr/local/bin/ruby --verbose
require 'gtk2'
include Gtk
init
win = Window.new
win.set_default_size 300, 300

hbox = HBox.new( false, 0)
win.add(hbox)

nb = Notebook.new
hbox.add(nb)

def add_page nb
vbox = VBox.new( false, 0)
tab_label_box = EventBox.new
label = Label.new('test')
tab_label_box.add(label)
tab_label_box.show_all
tab_label_box.signal_connect('button-press-event') do |widget,
event|
if event.event_type==Gdk::Event::BUTTON_PRESS and
event.button==2
puts nb.page_num(widget) # <-- not recognizing as a child ?
end
end
nb.append_page( vbox, tab_label_box)
end

add_page nb
add_page nb
add_page nb

win.show_all
main
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[Masao Mutoh]

Hi,

"tab_label" is not "child" of Gtk::Notebook.
Try code below.

HTH.

Unfortunately, I had problems with what I came up with. By using the
following, when middle clicking on any of the tabs it finds the
page_num to be -1 ..
--------------
#!/usr/local/bin/ruby --verbose
require 'gtk2'
include Gtk
init
win = Window.new
win.set_default_size 300, 300

hbox = HBox.new( false, 0)
win.add(hbox)

nb = Notebook.new
hbox.add(nb)

def add_page nb
vbox = VBox.new( false, 0)
tab_label_box = EventBox.new
label = Label.new('test')
tab_label_box.add(label)
tab_label_box.show_all
tab_label_box.signal_connect('button-press-event') do |widget,
event|
if event.event_type==Gdk::Event::BUTTON_PRESS and
event.button==2
puts nb.page_num(widget) # <-- not recognizing as a child ?

puts nb.page_num(vbox) # FIXED!

 

[Steve Litt]

Where does one get the gtk2 module?

SteveT

Steve Litt
http://www.troubleshooters.com
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Clayton Smith]

ok, but when I do:
puts nb==widget.parent # true

....

Clayton

 

[Clayton Smith]

http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/

Clayton

 

[Masao Mutoh]

Hi,

ok, but when I do:
puts nb==widget.parent # true

Strictly speaking, both of vbox and tab_label_box are
children of nb.

I meant vbox is the "child" in the API reference.

Gtk::Notebook#append_page(child, tab_label = nil)
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Gtk::Notebook#append_page

Gtk::Notebook#page_num(child)
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Gtk::Notebook#page_num

Sorry for incomplete answer.

 

[Clayton Smith]

Sorry for incomplete answer.
No need to be sorry. I greatly appreciate the help.

Clayton