oh. well it works now, thanks! Kevin On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Lex Trotman <elextr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 17 March 2011 12:08, Kevin Anthony <kevin.s.anthony@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Thanks, that helped alot, but now i'm suck again >> i'm populating the submenu's like this: >> if (!(g_strcmp0(progType,menu1))){ >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ÂGtkWidget *item; >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âitem = gtk_menu_item_new_with_label(progName); >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âgtk_menu_shell_append(GTK_MENU_SHELL (menu1), item); >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âprintf("%s\n",sptr); >> >> g_signal_connect_swapped(item,"activate",G_CALLBACK(callback1),(gpointer)"Callback1"); >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â}else if (!(g_strcmp0(progType,menu2))){ >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ÂGtkWidget *item2; >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âitem2 = gtk_menu_item_new_with_label(progName); >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Âgtk_menu_shell_append(GTK_MENU_SHELL (menu2), item2); >> >> g_signal_connect_swapped(item2,"activate",G_CALLBACK(callback2),NULL); >> Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â} >> >> void callback1(GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data){ >> Â Â Âprintf("callback called\n,%s\n",(char*) data); >> } >> and data is garbage. >> i read in a bunch of file names in the format progName.progType.xml. >> but if i have more then one of a given progType, i need full file >> name, it's stored in sptr, but it gets freed at the end of this loop. >> so i tired gtk_widget_set_name(item,sptr) but when in callback1, i >> called gtk_widget_get_name, it falled assert is widget. > > g_signal_connect_swapped swaps the object and the data, thats why they > are both wrong > > Cheers > Lex > >> >> what's the proper way of doing this? >> >> Thanks >> Kevin >> > -- Thanks Kevin Anthony www.NoSideRacing.com _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list