Re: changing menu item labels

[Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com>]

On Sun, 2007-12-09 at 09:18 -0500, Dr. Michael J. Chudobiak wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Is there an easy way to dynamically change the label associated with a 
> menu item?

  gtk_bin_get_child (GTK_BIN (menu_item))

will yield the child widget, which will be a GtkLabel most of the times,
unless you have been packing something else inside, in which case you
already know how to extract the label widget yourself.

> It want to implement a menu containing a fixed number of used-defined 
> scripts with user-defined names. I would like the user-defined names to 
> appear in the menu.

dynamically created menus are usually better implemented using
GtkUIManager and placeholders.

ciao,
 Emmanuele.

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