Re: How to use GtkCheckMenuItem?

[Damon Chaplin <damon ximian com>]

Roland Roberts wrote:
> 
> I'm building an application with Glade and have run into a problem
> with a menu item not behaving as I expect.  I have a menu in the
> menubar labelled "View" where I intend to put several check box items
> which can be used to turn on/off various top-level windows.  The first
> one I am working on is a "File List" window based on a CList.
> Initially, I simply forced the window to be created (if necessary) and
> displayed every time I would open a new file; this way, I *knew* the
> code to create and display the window was working properly.  Next, I
> changed the menu to add the "View->File List" item and added a
> callback to the GtkCheckMenuItem for the "toggled" signal.  Inside the
> signal handler, I put a g_message call to let me know the signal
> handler was invoked: but it isn't.
> 
> After some trial-and-error (and poking about the GTK headers), I've
> discovered that using the "activate" signal and checking the status of
> GTK_MENU_CHECK_ITEM(object)->active is the "right" thing to do.
> Is this a Glade problem?

Yes. In a GNOME application Glade only sets up the "activate" signal
as it uses GnomeUIInfo structs to create the menus.
Though I don't think its too much of a problem.

Damon