Re: casting Gtk::UIManager::get_widget()

[Sergio Perticone <g4ll0ws gmail com>]

Paul Davis wrote:
> Sergio,
>
> The reason you're getting errors is because the widget being returned
> isn't a CheckButton, its a CheckMenuItem or CheckMenuElem or
> something. 
> When doing things like this, I work with the actions
> though. Something like this:
>
> Glib::RefPtr< Gtk::Action > act = _ui_manager->get_action( actionName ) ;
> Glib::RefPtr< Gtk::ToggleAction > tact =
>                Glib::RefPtr< Gtk::ToggleAction >::cast_dynamic( act ) ;
>
> if( tact->get_active() )
> {
>    //do something
> }

It works! Thanks a lot.

> HTH,
> Paul Davis

s.