Re: simple question: get menu item string

[Carlos Pereira <carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt>]

>I am trying to find the function that returns the string of the selected
>item.

gchar *string;
GtkWidget *label = GTK_BIN (menu_item)->child;
gtk_label_get (GTK_LABEL (label), &string);

You don't need to malloc or free string, it's
just a pointer to the string allocated by Gtk.
Of course it's gone when the menu_item is destroyed.
Carlos