Re: setting the style of a menubar menu item ?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Paul Barton-Davis <pbd@Op.Net> writes:

> I have the following widget arrangement:
> 
>  +-HBox----------------------------------------------+
>  |+---------------------+     +---------------------+| 
>  ||                     |     |                     ||
>  || button              |     | menubar w/1 item    ||
>  |+---------------------+     +---------------------+|
>  +---------------------------------------------------+
> 
> i want to set the font used by the menubar item to the same as the one
> used by the button. normally, i use gtk_widget_set_name() to do this,
> and then define the style in an rc file. in this case, both the button
> and the widget will use the same style.
> 
> however, i can't figure out which widget i should be setting the name
> of. i tried both the widget returned by gtk_item_factory_create_item()
> and the one returned by gtk_item_factory_get_menubar_widget(), but
> neither seems to result in the font changing. in both cases, the text
> of the menubar item is in the font of the default style.

Remember, a menu item is a label contained in a GtkMenuItem widget
which is a container.

So, if you set the name of the menu item to "MyItem", then the pattern
specification in your RC file should look like:

 widget "MyItem.GtkLabel" style "MyFontStyle"

Regards,
                                        Owen