Re: GtkStatusBar

Here's the answer I got from GTK+ list: If you use 2 different types of messages, error + status, you can find out which ones where error messages, which ones status messages, and implement for example abutton, that clears all status messages, but leaves the error messages alone. On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Barry Mitchelson wrote: > hello all, > > I've been playing round with GtkStatusBar and was pondering the following : > > > to push and pop from the status bar you need to do the following : > > $statusbar = &new GtkStatusBar(); > $contextid = $statusbar->get_context_id("status"); > > $statusbar->push($contextid,"foo"); > > $statusbar->pop($contextid); > > now, if i'm correct in thinking that the contextid is only for the status bar object you > create, then there is no need to specify the contextid when push and popping, and > for that matter removing. The statusbar functions would be easier to use if the contextid was > stored internally in the GtkStatusBar object. > > I wrote a class extension to try this : > > class GtkStatusBarEx extends GtkStatusBar > { > function GtkStatusBarEx () > { > GtkStatusBar::GtkStatusBar(); > $this->m_contextid = $this->get_context_id("status"); > } > > > function push ($text) > { > return GtkStatusBar::push($this->m_contextid,$text); > } > > function pop () > { > GtkStatusBar::pop($this->m_contextid); > } > > function remove ($msgid) > { > GtkStatusBar::remove($this->m_contextid,$msgid); > } > > }; > > so the above code would now read : > > $statusbar = &new GtkStatusBarEx(); > > $statusbar->push("foo"); > > $statusbar->pop(); > > > this works fine, and I have used it in my own code. > > What would be the chances of incorporating this into the standard GtkStatusBar class ? > > barry > > -- > http://www.theshining.org > > -- > PHP GTK Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-gtk-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-gtk-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -Andrei * I wish life had an UNDO function. *