Re: Gnome::App->create_menus() not inserting widget info

[Paolo Molaro <lupus ximian com>]

On 05/30/01 Andrew Schretter wrote:
> I'm creating a set of menus and toolbars the easy way with the
> create_menus and create_toolbar functions of Gnome::App.
>
> I create an array like :
>
> @main_toolbar = (
>    {
>         type => 'item',
>         label => 'Quit',
>         pixmap_type => 'filename',
>         pixmap_info => 'pics/quit.xpm',
>         hint => "Click here to quit",
>         callback => sub \&my_function,
>    }
> );
>
> and then call :
>
> $app->create_toolbar(@main_toolbar);
>
> Almost everything looks perfect.  The problem I am encountering is that
> create_menus in the C code is supposed to put into the 11th field of GnomeUIInfo
> a pointer to the GtkWidget that is the menuitem.  I can't seem to reference this
> info, either it is not placed into the hash above when create_toolbar is called
> or it is placed with a key that I can't find.

Ok, I wasn't aware of this feature (and anyway I didn't write 
that code, so blame dhd:-). When I needed to get a handle on a widget
I used the append_item() API.
Anyway, this is now fixed in cvs and will be included in the next release.
I changed Gnome/samples/app-helper.pl to show how to get the widgets.
I'd appreciate if someone writes a convenience function along the lines
of show_widget in the sample code that returns a widget given a path:

        my $widget = Gnome::widget_from_uiinfo (\ toolbar_info, "/Help/About")

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