Re: [gtk-list] Re: Use of optionmenu's

["K. M. Hawarden-Ogata" <hawarden duke ifa hawaii edu>]

>Lee wrote:
>
>As a plea to the gtk+ developers, please consider making a nicer option
menu
>API in the next major version of gtk+... Please?

I agree, I have had this problem as well, and solved it in exactly the same
dirty fashion =(
Maybe if enough of us ask about this, it might be possible?

Count my vote in,
Miranda
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lee <lee0@callnetuk.com>
To: cornersite@crosswinds.net <cornersite@crosswinds.net>;
gtk-list@redhat.com <gtk-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, July 01, 1999 1:50 PM
Subject: [gtk-list] Re: Use of optionmenu's


>Aslak Johansen wrote:
>
>> I am trying to figure out how to see which option is selected
>> in an gtk_option_menu.
>> There must be a simple way to do so!
>
>I had the same thought exactly last week. The best way I've found to handle
>the problem (and it's more of a gross hack than a solution), is to connect
a
>function to the "activate" signal of each item of the option menu.
>Make that function then set a global variable to a value that you as the
>programmer know represents one of the items in your option menu.
>When you need to know what has been selected, just examine your global
>variable.
>
>It's dirty, it's global, and it's down-right unpleasant, imho.
>But it does work.
>
>You can retrieve the selected "menuitem" itself using
>gtk_menu_get_selected() (or a similar named function, i don't have the
>reference docs to hand).
>But how you extract the actual name of the item from what is returned, I
>don't know.
>
>As a plea to the gtk+ developers, please consider making a nicer option
menu
>API in the next major version of gtk+... Please?
>
>Regards,
>
>Lee.
>
>
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