[Gambas-user] X11Systray+GB.QT4+DrawingArea

[Benoît Minisini]

Le 26/06/2014 21:25, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Le 26/06/2014 18:51, herberth guzman a écrit :
>> Hi Benoit
>>
>> I know Gambas3.6 is under development, But the idea is to help improve
>> Gambas3.
>>
>> I was watching these days on the error, the same Example of gambas3
>> systray
>> have error.
>>
>> 1 - With gb.gui and gb.gtk3 component and the systray does not work and
>> when you switch to gb.qt4 works well.
>>
>> 2 - If you change the form.transparent = true property you will realize
>> that does not work, gives error "Violation of section 11" and gambas3
>> stops.
>>
>> 3 - I'm not sure that the problem is in integrating the
>> form.transparent =
>> true and when DrawingArea X11Systray use.
>>
>> 4 - Y form.transparent=true the same application using libreoffice +
>> scroll
>> mouse gives the same error:
>> Violation of segment 11 and gambas3 stops.
>>
>> It is unusual and very rare.
>>
>>
>> How I can fix these little problems?
>>
>> Thanks and Regards.
>>
>> Herberth Guzmán
>
> Strange, as apparently some things that worked before do not work
> anymore, and sometimes crash. I will investigate.
>
> By the way, don't expect to put your systrem tray directly inside a
> transaprent window, it won't work. Because "transparent" windows and
> "normal" windows are not compatible on X11. As system tray icons are
> created outside of the system tray (by the application owner), they are
> "normal" windows. So they refuse to be embedded inside a "transparent"
> window.
>
> To workaround that, you can have one transparent form for your panel,
> one normal form for your system tray. The system tray window will have
> no border at all, and will be put on top of the panel form, so that you
> think it is embedded inside. But it won't.
>
> Another point: the "nm-applet" does not use the old system tray icon
> standard, so the Gambas system tray won't see it. Maybe it works if
> there is no application that manages the new standard, like the KDE
> panel. I don't know, I didn't check.
>
> Regards,
>

It should work better with the latest revision.

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Benoît Minisini