Re: Dazed and confused about menus

[Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch web de>]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 15:38, David Sword wrote:

> Everything works fine, except for attaching the callback to run the
> programs - it always contains the details of the last menuitem created,
> as opposed to the one selected, and I don't understand how to make this
> work (or even if it CAN work!)

>             $progname  = $subname;
>           $MenuItem[$cntr]->signal_connect('activate' => sub{
> \&RunProg(@_,$progname)} );

Looks like $progname is the problem. You're not using 'my' when you
declare it, thus you don't get a lexically scoped variable (which you
want), but a global.

If you were running under 'use strict;' and 'use warnings;', Perl
would've warned you.

Bye,
-Torsten