Re: [gtk-list] Re: Option widget index

["K. M. Hawarden-Ogata" <hawarden duke ifa hawaii edu>]

Unfortunately, I don't want the widget, I want the index of the widget,
i.e., what position in the list the widget holds. The reason I want this is
because I use an array of strings to create the option menu and I need to
know which of the items was selected. But I can't figure out a way to query
the selection. Like I said, getting the widget doesn't help. I know what
position it is in, but the computer doesn't. Is this information not stored
somewhere in the structure?

-----Original Message-----
From: Lee <lee0@callnetuk.com>
To: gtk-list@redhat.com <gtk-list@redhat.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 16, 1999 2:09 AM
Subject: [gtk-list] Re: Option widget index


>K. M. Hawarden-Ogata wrote:
>>
>> For an option menu widget, how do you read off the selected option,
without
>> using a callback?
>
>From browsing the reference documentation, GtkMenu provides the
>following function:
>
>GtkWidget*  gtk_menu_get_active             (GtkMenu *menu);
>
>So to find which option menu item was just selected, call that function
>using whichever GtkMenu you passed when setting the menu of your
>GtkOptionMenu.
>
>This returns the relevant GtkMenuItem that was selected.
>
>hth,
>
>--
>Lee.



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