Re: How to destroy a GtkMenu?

[Vikram Ambrose <noel ambrose gmail com>]

On 03/18/2011 05:06 AM, jcupitt gmail com wrote:
> No need to destroy it. Build the menu, keep a pointer to the built
> menu around somewhere, and pop it up when you need it.

My Menus are not static. Depending on what you've right-clicked on you 
get different options.

I need to destroy them.

I think I've managed to simplify it a bit by doing gtk_widget_destroy 
inside the selection-done event.


> If you close the window you built the menu for, you can destroy the
> menu in the window's dispose method.

Are you talking about the GdkWindow associated with a popped up GtkMenu 
or the top-level GtkWindow?


/V

> On Thursday, 17 March 2011, Vikram Ambrose<noel ambrose gmail com>  wrote:
> >      After you have run gtk_menu_popup(), whats
> >        the proper way of deallocating memory for the menu?
> >
> >        Currently I'm hooking into the "deactivate" signal, from which I
> >        call gdk_threads_add_idle, which in turn calls a GSourceFunc that
> >        just does gtk_widget_destroy. Seems kinda convoluted so I'm
> >        guessing its probably not the right way.
> >
> >
> >        eg.
> >
> >        ...
> >          g_signal_connect(menu,"deactivate",on_menu_deactivate),NULL);
> >        ...
> >
> >
> >        static gboolean destroy_(gpointer widget){
> >          gtk_widget_destroy(widget);
> >          return FALSE;
> >        }
> >
> >        static void on_menu_deactivate(GtkWidget *menu, gpointer data){
> >          gdk_threads_add_idle(destroy_menu,menu);
> >        }
> >
> >
> >
> >        V.