Re: question on gtk_menu_item_set_submenu

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Sat, 18 Sep 2004, Maciej Katafiasz wrote:

> Dnia 17-09-2004, pi o godzinie 17:24 -0400, Allin Cottrell napisaB(a):
> > I'm using gtk_menu_item_set_submenu to attach a little submenu to a
> > certain item in a popup menu.  So far so good, but I'd like the same
> > submenu to appear "beneath" more than one item in the primary popup
> > menu.  When I call gtk_menu_item_set_submenu for a second time, with a
> > different attachment-point parameter but the same submenu parameter, I
> > see this at runtime:
> >
> > Gtk-WARNING **: gtk_menu_attach_to_widget(): menu
> > already attached to GtkMenuItem
> >
> > Is this bad?  Should I be doing this in a different way?
> > (gtk version is 2.4.9)
>
> in gtk-demo app (comes with gtk+ source distribution, in Debian it's in
> gtk2.0-examples package, dunno for other distros), there's menu example
> which does just that...

Thanks for pointing that out.  Looking at the demo code, I see that 
the recursive nature of the submenu creation means that a distinct 
submenu gets created each time (I think).  I've now modified my code 
to create distinct copies of the submenu, and the warning has 
disappeared.

Allin Cottrell