Re: MenuItem label text

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 03/06/01 Francois BARRIERE wrote:
>    I'm using Gtk-PERL with Glade and try to retrieve the label (or item
> position in the list) of an optionMenu. The code being written by Glade
> there is no callback connected to the optionMenu change, and I can't add one,
> so I would like to get the selected item label (or anything more than just the
> MenuItem widget reference).
> Until now I can get to the selected item (with ->get_menu->get_active), but
> I'm stuck here!
>
> Can someone give me a clue?

Once you have the active menu item you get the child widget with:
$child = $menuitem->child;

If the child is a Gtk::Label, you can simply use:
$text = $child->get;

to get the text in the label.

lupus

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