Hello and a question

[January Weiner 3 <jweiner1 ix urz uni-heidelberg de>]

Hello everyone on this mailing list,

my name is January, I am a graduate student in biology working on a
small gtk based launcher / wrapper for command line programs
(mostly biology related stuff). So much for introduction :-) 

My first question -- and the reason I finally subscribed to this mailing
list -- is about GtkItemFactory. Please, don't flame me -- I have really
tried to find out the answer using FAQs, archives, tutorial and google,
short of reading the sources.

I have a following problem: there is a menu bar with a menu called
"Programs". There are several entries in this menu, some of them are menus,
some of them are menu items. I would like to allow the user to delete some
of those items. However, it does not work. Not really. 

For example, I have something like that:

const char *itempath = "/Programs/unix utilities/wc" ;

Now, when I delete this item:

gtk_item_factory_delete_item(myfactory, itempath) ;

...the entry "wc" gets deleted, but the entry "...unix utilities" remains.
OK, I think, and I do the following:

gtk_item_factory_delete_item(myfactory, "/Programs/unix utilities") ;

However, this doesn't work. I'm still stuck with those damned unix
utilities menu (empty now).

gtk_item_factory_delete_item(myfactory, "/Programs/unix utilities/") ;

..doesn't work either.

So, here is the question: what should I do?

Cheers,
j.

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