[Gtk-sharp-list] Re: Menu Position

[Eric Butler]

Hey!

The issue appears to be that you need to ShowAll() before Popup(). I've
updated the wiki page.

http://www.mono-project.com/index.php?title=GtkSharpNotificationIcon&diff=0&oldid=1787

Please let me know that this worked for you.

Regards,
Eric

Milen Dzhumerov wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've been having trouble positioning some popup menus. What I do is
> basically put an icon in the system tray, put it in an event box and
> catch right click. On right click I show a popup menu. When the
> (gnome/kde/fd.o compliant) panel is on top, everything works perfectly,
> but when it's on the bottom of the screen, it just displays an arrow to
> scroll and the actual menu items are hidden behind it, so it's unusable.
> I was told to pass a Gtk.MenuPositionFunc(Menu
> <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aGtk.Menu> menu,out
> int <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aSystem.Int32> x,
> out int <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aSystem.Int32>
> y, bool
> <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aSystem.Boolean>
> push_in) to Gtk.Menu.Popup(Widget
> <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aGtk.Widget>, Widget
> <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aGtk.Widget>,
> MenuPositionFunc
> <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aGtk.MenuPositionFunc>,
> System.IntPtr
> <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aSystem.IntPtr>, uint
> <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aSystem.UInt32>, uint
> <http://www.go-mono.com/docs/monodoc.ashx?link=T%3aSystem.UInt32>). The
> only thing I can't work out is the algorithm of calculating the
> coordinates where I should pop up the menu. So I assume the first step
> would be to create a Gtk.Requisition and get menu.SizeRequest() so I
> know the requested size. But where do I go from there? I have spoken to
> some people on irc in #gtk+ but didn't get too much advice. I would
> *greatly* appreciate any help.
> 
> Kind regards,
> gamehack
> 
> PS. I'm doing it for this tutorial
> www.mono-project.com/GtkSharpNotificationIcon. If I get help eventually,
> I will document everything and write a mini howto and hopefully a
> systray_menu_position function so others can use it, because I'm finding
> it really hard to do this on my own with only API references. Again,
> thanks for any help.
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