Re: [Fwd: [gtkmm] Submenu slots don't get called]

[Christer Palm <palm nogui se>]

What is a message slot?
Perhaps you can post some example code? This is usually a good idea...
If you think that it could be a GTK+/gtkmm bug, then it would also be a 
good idea to try the latest version before further research.

patrick wrote:
> as no one including myself seems to have a clue yet, i'd like to provide 
> some additional information:
>
> One thing contributing to the problem is:
> the source code for the popup context menu in the current
> gtkmm - documentation appears to be missing (as well as in the 
> corresponding example itself).
>
> Debugging within gtk, i found:
> top-level menu items call their slots somewhere via gtkmenushell.c, line 
> 527 in gtk_menu_shell_button_release(),
> while events for submenu items seem to get lost a few lines above in the 
> same method at line 497 with a call to
> gtk_widget_event().
> I couldn't make much sense of the more intricate stuff there, though.
>
> (I'm using gtk+-2.4.1, btw)
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     [gtkmm] Submenu slots don't get called
> Date:     Tue, 13 Jul 2004 20:55:29 +0200
> From:     patrick <patrick-oliver-schmidt gmx de>
> To:     gtkmm-list gnome org
>
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm having trouble with submenus in a popup menu.
> The submenu gets filled and then attached to the parent item via  
> MenuItem::set_submenu.
> After that, Gtk::Menu::accelerate is called with the main window as 
> argument for the toplevel menu,
> and the respective parent menus for the submenus.
> Everything looks fine, except that not one message slot gets called for 
> any of
> the submenus, while the first level works.
>
> What am I forgetting, any ideas?
>
> Another, not so urgent but still as strange problem:
> When the mouse hovers over a menu item with a submenu attached to it, 
> the message slot gets called.
> Of course, I have to leave the message handler empty because of that, 
> but I'd rather like to actually use the submenu item
> like any other menu item, is that possible?
>
>
>
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