[wxruby-users] Dynamic Task Bar Menu Items

[Alex Fenton]

Hi

Firstly, take a look at the sample "bigdemo/bigdemo.rb" and look for the 
class DemoTaskBarIcon. I think it demonstrates most of what you want to do.

EchoB wrote:
> Am looking for a way to dynamically add menu items to a task bar icon 
> menu. 
Define a method "create_popup_menu" in your TaskBarIcon subclass. This 
will be called on each occasion that the menu is shown, so simply create 
the menu with the appropriate items at any given time.
> And then once selected - I would like to get the title of the menu 
> item. 
Use evt_menu to get the menu item selected, then use Wx::Menu#get_label 
to get the text string for that item. Imagine that in create_popup_menu 
you store the menu as an instance variable @menu, you could do the 
following in your TaskBarIcon initialize method to capture all menu 
events and show the text label.

evt_menu(Wx::ID_ANY) do | event |
  puts @menu.label(event.id)
end

> Also - Am wondering about how to get the menu to respond to the left 
> mouse button click - as opposed to the right one by default.
use evt_taskbar_left_down or evt_taskbar_left_up. Take a look at the 
TaskBarIcon and Menu documentation - I think this should all be covered, 
but please get in touch if anything's not clear.

http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/taskbaricon.html
http://wxruby.rubyforge.org/doc/menu.html

cheers
alex