Re: menuitem activate

[David Nečas (Yeti) <yeti physics muni cz>]

On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 11:21:41AM -0400, danielg Posting wrote:
> and I'm trying to activate the refresh menu item.  How would it know which
> menuitem to activate?

Leaving aside item factories have been deprecated for a long
time:
(a) you can store the item somewhere (e.g. in some struct)
(b) you can fetch it with gtk_item_factory_get_item() again

> I also have the standard menu, File, Edit, etc which
> has this:
>
> ...
>
> But the Edit menu is not active at the point I want the refresh to take place.
>  I also tried menuitem.refresh and tw->menuitem.refresh.  Yes, I do know I'm
> probably in left field, but I figured I'd just try it all before I asked for help.

If you know what action you want to invoke, you can also
call the callback function of the item directly (or some
other function that performs the requested action), can't
you?

> So, what the heck is "menuitem" inside the parenthases?  Back to my original
> question.

For instance tw->menuitem.file.  Any of them.  All are menu
items.

Yeti

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