Hi, I didn't see this copied to the list and I wanted the answer to be archived and available for others future reference. Thanks go to John Cupitt! > Hi Dav, as long as you have a pointer to the menu item, it's > easy. Just get the child of the GtkMenuItem with > gtk_bin_get_child(), cast it to a label, and call > gtk_label_set_text(). > > GtkMenuItem *item = ....; > > GtkLabel *label = GTK_LABEL( gtk_bin_get_child( GTK_BIN( item ) ) ); > > gtk_label_set_test( label, "foo!" ); > > Use gtk_item_factory_get_widget() to find a pointer to your menu item. > > John > > J. Davison de St. Germain wrote: > > Can someone tell me how to change the label on a menu item in GTK? > > I've created the menu with a label (say: "Turn on Light") and when a > > user selects it, I wish to change the lable (to say: "Turn off > > Light"). I've looked at the API and can not find an applicable > > function. I've also looked at the source code and it appears that the > > pointer to the label is "lost" and thus it might not be possible to > > do this. Any help is greatly appreciated. - Dav ----------------------------------------------------------------------- - J. Davison de St. Germain dav@xxxxxxxxxxx (801) 581-4078 - - Chief Software Engineer http://www.cs.utah.edu/~dav - - SCI Institute, SE C-SAFE University of Utah - ----------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
