icons in wxStatusBar

rex666 · Post by **rex666** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 10:18 pm

Has anyone done this in a cross-platform way?

Thanks
-robin

Post by **Jorg** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:45 am

wxTaskBarIcon ?

wxTaskBarIcon

This class represents a taskbar icon, appearing in the 'system tray' and responding to mouse clicks. An icon has an optional tooltip. Supported under most ports (wxMSW, wxGTK, wxMotif, wxX11, wxMac).

X Window System Note

Under X Window System, the window manager must support either the System Tray Protocol by freedesktop.org (WMs used by modern desktop environments such as GNOME >= 2, KDE >= 3 and XFCE >= 4 all do) or the older methods used in GNOME 1.2 and KDE 1 and 2. If it doesn't, the icon will appear as a toplevel window on user's desktop.

Because not all window managers have system tray, there's no guarantee that wxTaskBarIcon will work correctly under X Window System and so the applications should use it only as an optional component of their user interface. The user should be required to explicitly enable the taskbar icon on Unix, it shouldn't be on by default.

Avi · Post by **Avi** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 2:53 pm

Jorg, aren't the taskbar and application's status bar two different things?

rex666, it is possible. You can see statusbar icons in the following xMule (which uses wxWidgets) screenshot: http://alts.homelinux.net/shots/19-0.jpg

I will look up some code in xMule and post it here.

Cursor · Post by **Cursor** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 3:50 pm

Yes you can.
You can do it with a wxStatusBar derivation and with a wxPaintEvent interception inwitch you draw the icon bitmap.
You could derivate wxStatusBar to integrate a wxStaticBitmap control (the icon).

Avi · Post by **Avi** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 7:33 pm

Yes, I agree, the best way is to simply insert a wxStaticBitmap into the wxStatusBar (since the status bar is derived from wxWindow)