Update menu when click on indicator applet

[xisco.rib]

Hello folks,

I'm developing an application with python which has an icon in the indicator applet.
I've used this example https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators and the icon is shown correctly but I'd like to update its menu when i click on it. I've tried with

self.connect('clicked',self._on_click)
but i get the follow error

TypeError: <Indicator object at 0x99b2acc (AppIndicator at 0x99dd058)>: unknown signal name: clicked

So does anyone know how to implement it ?
Thank you in advance !

[johnl]

Hi,

as far as I can tell you create a gtk.Menu and pass it to the indicator, and then handle the menu events like you normally would. The Indicator will take care of showing the menu when you click on it.



menu = gtk.Menu()
item = gtk.MenuItem("test menu item")
# here you can connect signals for each menu item
# item.connect('activate', handle_menu_item)
menu.append(item)
item.show()

your_indicator.set_menu(menu)

[xisco.rib]

Well, the indicator shows the menu when i click on it but doesn't update it.
If i implement a normal menu, I can update it through

self.menu.connect('popup-menu',self._on_popup)
but it doesn't work within the indicator.
Basically what i want to do is create the menu dinamically when i click on the icon.