Re: Getting submenu from a MenuItem

[Toby Gray <toby gray ntlworld com>]

Thats exactly what I was looking for thanks, looks like I am going to have to 
make the menus the hard way then :)

Toby

On Tuesday 29 January 2002 1:54 am, Gavin Jefferies wrote:
> Hi Toby,
>
> To add an arbitrary widget to a Gtk::Menu you can create a MenuItem
> and use ->add(). This is how I insert space into a menu. For example:
>
>     # menu created, items added....
>
>     # Spacer
>     $menuItem = Gtk::MenuItem->new();
>     $menuItem->show();
>     $menu->append($menuItem);
>     my $sbox = Gtk::HBox->new(0, 0);
>     $sbox->show;
>     $menuItem->add($sbox);
>     my $slabel = Gtk::Label->new;
>     $slabel->show;
>     $sbox->pack_start($slabel, 1, 1, 0); # label expands to fill the box...
>
> Perhaps this is what you are looking for??
> Gavin
>
> Toby Gray <toby gray ntlworld com> writes:
> > On Monday 28 January 2002 11:50 pm, you wrote:
> > > get_submenu() is a function of the 2.0 API (which is not, afaik,
> > > implemented in Perl yet).
> >
> > Ahhhh ok thanks.
> >
> > > Without seeing your code, or exactly what you need to do, I can only
> > > suggest that it might be easier to keep track of this yourself.
> > > If you create a menu structure in a hash, it should be fairly trivial
> > > to keep track of the heirarchy.  Though somebody else may have a much
> > > better solution ;)
> >
> > Well that was what I was hoping to do, but I want to also include
> > seperators in a Gtk::Menu, which as far as I could see, can only be done
> > using Gtk::itemfactory, which I think I might be wrong on, which I'm sure
> > someone will point out to me. But when using Gtk::itemfactory I also
> > can't find a method of getting the references to Gtk::MenuItems, so I'm
> > sorta stuck really.
> >
> > Toby
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