Re: Action-based menu API

[Dave Malcolm <david davemalcolm demon co uk>]

On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 16:20, iain wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 13:16, Dave Malcolm wrote:
> 
> > > > Some questions:
> > > > (i) what stable release of GTK (if any) would I have to add as a
> > > > dependency if I wanted to link to this functionality in GTK+?
> > > 
> > > I'm using it my application and linking it to gtk2.2, but I think it
> > > should work with 2.0
> > 
> > It doesn't seem to be present on my vanilla Red Hat 9 machine, on which
> > "pkg-config --modversion gtk+-2.0" gives "2.2.1".  Specifically, I can't
> > find the header file <gtk/gtkaction.h> (which was put in the CVS version
> > of GTK from libegg on 24th August 2003).  This file also doesn't seem to
> > be present in the 2.2.4 tarball, which I believe is the most recent
> > stable release.
> > 
> > What header files are you using, and what modversion do you get?
> > 
> 
> Oh, I misunderstood your question.
> I thought you were asking what version of gtk did the code in libegg
> depend on.
> The gtkaction stuff is going to be in gtk 2.4, the code in libegg should
> work with gtk > 2.0 I think.


Aha - thanks!  That makes much more sense.

> 
> 
> > > Thats exactly how its supposed to work.
> > > Note that when you change to use the GTK 2.4 version that 
> > > there are some differences between the libegg version and the 
> > > gtk version.
> > 
> > Thanks for the warning.  Hopefully they are minor at the moment.
> 
> Some renaming of functions and a few changes to the structures.
> 
> iain
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