On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 4:15 PM, joel krähemann <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, sorry that I didn't explain exactly what I want, but I need to pack > widgets like GtkVScale into a GtkOptionMenu and I can't find a cell > renderer for widgets and I believe that there isn't one for widgets. So > my question was why is GtkOptionMenu deprecated and what could I do > better when I implement my own? > Assumed there will be a way by using GtkComboBox, please show me the > missing code below. what you're describing is not, i think, a valid use of GtkOptionMenu - it just happened to work because nobody was paying attention. the key behaviour of a GtkOptionMenu was: "When activated the GtkOptionMenu displays a popup GtkMenu which allows the user to make a new choice." There's nothing there about packing arbitrary widgets into anything. Its basically a button (with a specific kind of appearance) that displays a GtkMenu when clicked. my guess is that you were confused/misled by gtk_menu_shell_append (GtkMenuShell*, GtkWidget*) which makes it appear that you can pack arbitrary widgets into a GtkMenu. But in fact, the documentation reads "A GtkMenuShell is a container of GtkMenuItem objects arranged in a list". Its more a quirky aspect of the API that leads to the 2nd argument of gtk_menu_shell_append() taking a widget - its intended to take a GtkMenuItem, as noted: "Adds a new GtkMenuItem to the end of the menu shell's item list. " You may also have the docs for GtkMenu, but missed the footnote: "As it derives from GtkBin it can hold any valid child widget, altough only a few are really useful. " Unfortunately, I think you've found a corner case that works but wasn't intended to work and thus is certainly not supported as we've moved onto GtkComboBox. I could be wrong, but is my reading of the documentation. --p _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
