MenuItems and events in Gtk2.0

[Jon Wilson <sendmemymail bigfoot com>]

I am trying to get menuitems to respond to the mouse clicking them in 
GTK-2.0 on windows. Everything builds ok and all my other events to 
update the status bar when hovering over menuitems and close the main 
window work. However, I cannot get the menuitems to do anything! I am 
using the old gtk-1.4 way of coding here:
about=gtk_menu_item_new_with_label("About"); 
gtk_signal_connect_object(GTK_OBJECT(exitItem),"activate",GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(eventDestroy),NULL); 

gint eventAbout(GtkWidget* widget,GdkEvent *event,gpointer data);

but I have tried in the new 2.0 style.
g_signal_connect_object(G_OBJECT(exitItem),"activate",G_CALLBACK(eventDestroy),NULL); 

gulong eventAbout(GtkWidget* widget,gpointer data);

However, in neither case do the events actually fire! I am using the 
latest binaries from the win32 port page from gtk.org as of sending this 
mail. Can anyone explain this?

Many Thanks.
Jon Wilson