Re: Menu Item Labels

[Carlos Pereira <carlos pehoe civil ist utl pt>]

Are you sure you want to connect to "button_press_event"?
You can use this signal:

gtk_signal_connect (GTK_OBJECT (menu_item), "activate", 
GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (handler_function), data);

Your callback will be like this:

void handler_function (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)

and widget is the menu_item, which you can in turn
cast to bin and get the child, which is the label,

label = GTK_BIN (widget)->child;

Now you can get the text inside with:

gtk_label_get (label, &string);

Carlos

> If a menu item is created in the following manner:

> file_name_label = gtk_menu_item_new_with_label (menu_label);
> gtk_menu_append (GTK_MENU (toolbar_alpha_submenus), file_name_label);
> gtk_widget_show (file_name_label);
> gtk_signal_connect_object (GTK_OBJECT (file_name_label), 
> "button_press_event",
                           GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC (edit_this_file), (gpointer) 
> g_strdup (path));

> is there a way to extract the menu's label text string (menu_label) when 
> the "button_press_event" signal is emitted? In this case, menu_label is 
> the name of a file and when the user clicks on that menu I'd like to 
> retrieve the file the user clicked on to be able to do some processing 
> with it.