GtkOptionMenu: reading menu -item labels

[Zoran Rilak <wayward tirion test net>]

Hello,

  I'm having a problem with GtkOptionMenu widget. I have an instance with
labels for menu items (at least that's how I believe Glade creates option
menus), so it's an ordinary 'select-a-line' option button. At some point
in my program I need to iterate over those labels (when changing default
preferences with those read in from the config file). When I do

/* get menu */
  GtkMenu *w = gtk_option_menu_get_menu (opt_menu_widget);
/* get menu items */
  GList *l = ((GtkMenuShell *)w)->children;

/* iterate over menu items */
  while (l != NULL)
  {
    w = gtk_bin_get_child ((GtkBin *)l->data);
/******/
    printf ("[%s]\n", gtk_label_get_text ((GtkLabel *)w));
/******/
    l = g_list_next (l);
  }


I get the following behavior: for every menu item *other* than the
currently displayed one, I get that item's text; but for the displayed
item, gtk_label_get_text () issues a warning that w isn't a (GtkLabel *)
(and printf outputs "[(null)]").

I tried to determine the type of the offending widget with

  printf ("[%s]\n", g_type_name (GTK_WIDGET_TYPE (w)));

but it didn't work.


Also, GTK+ 2.3.2 documentation states that all of the functions operating
on GtkOptionMenu are deprecated; what are their replacements?


Thanks,
Zoran


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