[maemo-developers] Labels and right click / tap_and_hold pop up menus in gtk/gtkmm

[From: Simon Budig]

David Greaves (david at dgreaves.com) wrote:
> So this code snippet works when desc_b is a Gtk::Button
> 
> GtkWidgetTapAndHoldFlags f;
> gtk_widget_tap_and_hold_setup(
> 	(GtkWidget*)(desc_b.gobj()),
> 	(GtkWidget*)(pMenu->gobj()), NULL, f);
> 
> But I want to use a Gtk::Label - and that doesn't work.
> This, I think, is because a Label doesn't have a Gdk::Window for X events. OK.
> 
> So I tried the code snippet above with desc_b as an HBox and packed my label in
> that. No joy. I'm guessing that the HBox isn't listening to signals - how do I
> proceed - any ideas?

A GtkHBox also does not have its own GdkWindow. Try something like the
GtkEventBox.

Hope this helps,
        Simon

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