Emanuele, I have both static and dynamic menus, and I also wanted to solve the problem of adding a submenu dynamically, so this is helpful. The first step was solving the static case. Have you rewritten the recent-uimanager demo program to use the GtkRecentAction objects? Grazie, i ciao. Stewart > Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2007 23:16:54 +0000 > From: Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: RE: How to create submenus using UIManager > To: gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx > Message-ID: <1194218214.27081.10.camel@xxxxxxxxx> > Content-Type: text/plain > > > On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 15:27 -0500, Stewart Weiss wrote: > > > I have Emmanuele Bassi's recent-uimanager code and I am trying > > to use that as a guide, but it seems absurd to have to go down so > > far as to create GObjects just to do this. > > that code showed how to integrate a pre-existing menu item + sub-menu > widget (GtkRecentChooserMenu) with a GtkUIManager; as of GTK+ 2.12 it's > not needed anymore, as GtkRecentAction is available exactly for that > purpose. > > if your menu hierarchy is static and you just want to add a menu item > with a sub-menu, then just do: > > <menu> > <menuitem .../> > <menu> > <menuitem .../> > <menuitem .../> > ... > </menu> > <menuitem .../> > ... > </menu> > > if, on the other hand, your menu hierarchy is dynamically generated, you > can either use a placeholder and the switch in/out menu items or you can > use a GtkAction subclass that provides a menu item with its own > sub-menu, exactly like I did in my recent-uimanager example. > > my preferences go to the object-oriented approach, because it's cleaner > and easier to swap in or out of a project. and creating a new GObject > isn't that much work, compared to hooking into a placeholder. > > ciao, > Emmanuele. > > -- > Emmanuele Bassi, > W: http://www.emmanuelebassi.net > B: http://log.emmanuelebassi.net _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
