pyxfce panel plugin

[daniele favara]

On 3/19/06, Jannis Pohlmann <info at sten-net.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 17:55:13 +0100
> "daniele favara" <danjele at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On 3/19/06, Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> > > daniele favara schreef:
> > > > On 3/19/06, Danny Milosavljevic <danny.milosavljevic at liwest.at>
> > > > wrote:
> > > >> Hi,
> > > >>
> > > >> Am Donnerstag, den 16.03.2006, 08:42 +0100 schrieb daniele
> > > >> favara:
> > > >>> hi all,
> > > >>>
> > > >>> i decided to test pyxfce ... and here there is a first panel
> > > >>> plugin in python.
> > > >>>
> > > >>> bzr:     http://www.dsslive.org/bzr/basilico/
> > > >>> tar.gz: http://www.dsslive.org/downloads/basilico/
> > > >>> shots:  http://www.dsslive.org/mediawiki/index.php/Basilico
> > > >>>
> > > >>> it would be nice if someone could test it.
> > > >> nice :)
> > > >>
> > > >> Works here
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> i would even help on writing the pyxfce referencies .. if
> > > >>> someone could help me on that, i don't really know how it is
> > > >>> normally done.
> > > >> Depends on what kind of docs you want to write... most of the
> > > >> bindings are just generated code so the xfce C docs are usually
> > > >> sufficient for a reference...
> > > >
> > > > it would be useful i think to have sae doc as pygtk.
> > > >
> > > >> But for example a tutorial would be nice to have :)
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >>> it's really far from being stable ... but the main issue i
> > > >>> found was that i couldn't resize the gtk.Container ... is it me
> > > >>> or a pyxfce bug ?
> > > >> What do you mean? resize what? Containers resize automatically...
> > > >> whenever the allocation of the contents changes...
> > > >
> > > >                label=gtk.Label("Computer")
> > > >                #label=gtk.Label()
> > > >                label.set_size_request(args[0],128)
> > > >                #print
> > > >                #"=======================",label.get_size_request()
> > > >                label.show()
> > > >                # === Add Label and Icon to Box ===
> > > >                box.pack_start(icon,expand=True, fill=True,
> > > > padding=0  )
> > > >                #box.add(icon)
> > > >                box.pack_end(label,expand=True, fill=True,
> > > > padding=0  )
> > > >                #box.add(label)
> > > >
> > > > i would expect here to have:
> > > >
> > > > [icon | computer] (as for xfce4-menu plugin)
> > > >
> > > > but the button size doesn't change.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Do you handle the size-changed event from the plugin? There is a
> > > default handler that will run otherwise. A C handler must return
> > > TRUE to prevent the default handler to run; I presume there is
> > > something similar for the python bindings?
> > >
> >
> > == __init__ ==
> > self.constructor=xfce4.panel.Plugin()
> > self.constructor.window.set_geometry_hints(min_width=128)
> > self.constructor.connect("size-changed",self.cb_size) # Init Panel
> > Plugin
> >
> > == self.cb_size ==
> >
> > here is the whole gtk stuff ... button box and so on as the
> > size-changed signal is sent when the plugin has been added.
> >
> > let's say the panel size (height) is  33 the signal return a tuple
> > like this:
> >
> > size-changed signal (33,)
> >
> > then i tried even to use:
> >
> > widget.set_size_request(args[0],128)
> >
> > where args[0] is the size (33)
> >
> > then for each widgets i tried:
> >
> > print widget.get_size_request()
> >
> > and i get normally:
> >
> > (33, 128)
> >
> > but in the panel the button has still a size of (33,33).
>
> Do you return true from the size-changed callback? If not the changes
> you made may not be recognized properly.
>

thanks now it works :)


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