Ruby-gnome2: catching middle clicks on tabs

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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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2

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 ..
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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 ?

             puts nb.page_num(vbox) # FIXED!

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On Mon, 12 Dec 2005 18:32:38 +0900 "Clayton Smith" <ces.fci@gmail.com> wrote:

        end
    end
    nb.append_page( vbox, tab_label_box)
end

add_page nb
add_page nb
add_page nb

win.show_all
main

--
.:% Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>

3

Where does one get the gtk2 module?

SteveT

Steve Litt

slitt@troubleshooters.com

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On Monday 12 December 2005 08:42 am, Masao Mutoh wrote:

> #!/usr/local/bin/ruby --verbose
> require 'gtk2'

4

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

....

Clayton

5

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

Clayton

6

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%3A%3ANotebook#append_page

Gtk::Notebook#page_num(child)
http://ruby-gnome2.sourceforge.jp/hiki.cgi?Gtk%3A%3ANotebook#page_num

Sorry for incomplete answer.

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On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 02:07:38 +0900 "Clayton Smith" <ces.fci@gmail.com> wrote:
--
.:% Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>

7

Sorry for incomplete answer.

No need to be sorry. I greatly appreciate the help.

Clayton