Re: can't access notebook widget from menu?

[Paolo Costabel <paolo zebradevelopment com>]

Menus are not part of the widget hierarchy. You acn either pass the 
notebook pointer as user data to the menu callback or make your top 
window global.

N Deepak wrote:

> Hello,
>
>  I am developing a GNOME application (GPLed).  I used Glade for the UI.
>  The main part of the app is a 3-tab notebook.
>
>  I can access this notebook from a toolbar button like this:
>  w = gtk_widget_get_toplevel(b), lookup_widget(w, "notebook_widget")
>
>  However, the same scheme does not work on a menu-item.  All my menus
>  are therefore dysfunctional.
>
>  Can anyone please tell where I am going wrong?
>
> Thanks!
> Deepak
>
>