Re: Access information of an optionsmenu

[Iain McCoy <iainmccoy optushome com au>]

martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:

> What version of gtk are you using because, it doesnt exist in the
> documentation or my version, and yes, I knew the gtk_option_menu_set_history
> function existed, but couldnt see a "get" function to co-work with it
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Martyn
It appears to exist in the header files on my machine for both 1.2 and 
2.0. See what grep said when the following things happened from my 
/usr/include directory:

[iain localhost include]$ grep -n gtk_option_menu_set_history gtk-2.0/gtk/*
gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkoptionmenu.h:83:void       gtk_option_menu_set_history 
(GtkOptionMenu *option_menu,
[iain localhost include]$ grep -n gtk_option_menu_set_history gtk-1.2/gtk/*
gtk-1.2/gtk/gtkoptionmenu.h:73:void       gtk_option_menu_set_history 
(GtkOptionMenu *option_menu,

You're right, though. It isn't in the gtk 1.2 docs.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Iain McCoy [mailto:iainmccoy optushome com au]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 10:20 AM
> To: Norbert Haefke Freudenberg de
> Cc: gtk-app-devel-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Access information of an optionsmenu
>
>
> Norbert Haefke Freudenberg de wrote:
>
> > Hi 
> >
> > Question about the option menu:
> >
> > I need to figure out wich option was choosen from the user.
> > I dont wont to use callbacks for this.
> >
> > Is there any function (or way) to get information
> >
> > from the optionmenu which option is currently displayed.
>
> > Thanks for help
> >
> > Norbert
> Perhaps I'm missing the point, but from the docs at 
> http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtkoptionmenu.html#GTK-OPTION-MEN
> U-GET-HISTORY, 
> there is a function (gtk_option_menu_get_history) that "Retrieves the 
> index of the currently selected menu item. The menu items are numbered 
> from top to bottom, starting with 0." This sounds like exactly what is 
> required.
>
> Iain