Re: GtkCheckMenuItem needs double click?

[Perdie Perduta <rsperduta gmail com>]

Thanks for confirming this is the way it actually behaves!

I failed to put a check box on a tool bar but I could create a toggle
button and I can also add menus to the tool bar so that does indeed do
what I want :^)

There are quite few other peculiarities, e.g. text beside the icons
doesn't display, but below them does.
Could it be version incompatibility in the tools I'm using?

Glade 3.6.1
GTK+ 2.24.14


On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:20 AM, David NeÄas <yeti physics muni cz> wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 12:57:43AM +1300, Perdie Perduta wrote:
> > Using glade with GtkBuilder to create my application GUI. I'm
> > developing & testing on Windows 7 using Microsoft C++.
> > Trying to add a "record" button to my menu bar. Note: Ideally I would
> > have liked a nice red record button that lights up while my
> > application is recording, however just to get it working I put in
> > GtkCheckMenuItem.
> >
> > It is all working but inexplicably I have to click my GtkCheckMenuItem
> > *twice* to for each toggle. Is this a known common mistake?
> > Any advice or reference to previous thread on the subject would be appreciated.
>
> Adding *buttons* to *menubars* is certainly very odd.  It may be that to
> activate the button the menu item must get focus first, hence the two
> clicks.
>
> My advice is to use a toolbar instead.  It seems to fit what you are
> trying to do better and you can have tool items that act like plain
> buttons, toggles, radio button, that pop up menus, etc.
>
> Yeti



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