Option menus in GTK+

[Matthew D Allen <s2mdalle titan vcu edu>]

About option menus - I can connect a signal to each menu item inside the
optionmenu so that when it gets "activate" I can call a function of my
choice.  the problem is that in this function, I also need to know what
the state of the option menu was before it was changed.  Is there a way to
do this?

What I"m trying to do is this:  I've got an entry widget, and an option
menu next to it.  The entry widget can hold 4 different things, depending
on what the option menu is set to.  So what I need to do is when a new
option menu setting is chosen, I need to save whatever was in the entry
widget, and then clear it out for input on the next item corresponding to
the option menu item that as chosen.  The saving is easy, and the clearing
is easy, but when I move from one option menu item to the next, and I grab
the text out of the box, I have to know what option menu setting that
corresponded to before the change.  Is there a way to do that?  Basically,
find out whatever the setting on the option menu was BEFORE the new
setting?

I know that's a convoluted question but it's as good as I can describe it.
Any suggestions?

David Allen

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