Re: Reloading menu entries

[Ilan Volow <raskinite yahoo com>]

--- Marco Quezada <mquezada nlxcorp com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a program which builds menus according to a
> list that it loads
> when it executes. I want to give the user the option
> to "Refresh" the
> contents of the menus by pressing on a button. This
> should update the
> contents of files in a directory. Is there a gtk or
> maybe a system
> signal that will destroy and restart the
> program/process and thus allow
> the menus to be recreated?
>
> Thanks.

This is probably a long shot on my part, but there's a
whole bunch of GtkItemFactory functions that allows
you to do such things as dump an item factory
containing the said menu items to files, parse such
dumped files, and create new interfaces from them.
Take a look the GtkItemFactory API docs. You might be
able to do something like dump the modified menus as
an GtkItemFactory, reload GtkItemFactory, and call
gtk_main_iteration() (or do something really weird and
create a new instance of gtk_main that makes use of
the modified menus and kill the previous instance. Can
this be done? Can it be done without too mnch
weirdness going on? I'm not sure) 

Probably Havoc is able to give you far saner advice
than yours truly. But it's something to try in the
meantime. 
--Ilan 

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