Re: [gtk-list] Re: Lack of gtk_menu_delete function

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Jeremy Weatherford <xidus@xidus.net> writes:

> I think you're missing the point... even if there is a way to do that
> (which still isn't useful in my case since I don't want to keep up with
> the GtkMenuItem pointers), why shouldn't there be a gtk_menu_remove
> function, similar to gtk_clist_remove?  And what about gtk_menu_get_item?
> It seems to me like breaking encapsulation to go in and remove/destroy the
> menu item yourself when it's supposed to be owned by the GtkMenu.

 GList *list = gtk_container_children (menu);
 GtkWidget *menuitem = g_list_nth (list)->data;
 g_list_free (list);
 gtk_widget_destroy (menuitem);

If you want... but usually is just is easy to keep up with
the GtkWIdget * pointers for the children as is it is to
keep up with the numerical indices. Almost all of GTK+
works this way, gtk_clist_remove() is pretty much an
exception.

A lot of widgets don't even have a real natural order for
their children. Think about GtkTable.

And no, it doesn't break the encapsulation to destroy the menu
item - you aren't just randomly freeing the memory -
gtk_widget_destroy() is a call that says "remove me from my
parent, and ask everybody else to drop references to me."

Regards,
                                        Owen