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List:       gtk-app-devel
Subject:    Re: GtkMenuItem callback problem
From:       Havoc Pennington <rhp () zirx ! pair ! com>
Date:       1999-03-02 20:16:58
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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Robert Hawkins wrote:
> 
> However selecting the "close window" menu item just seems to disable the
> menu, and doesn't destroy the window.  I verified that the class path of
> "widget" is GtkWindow.GtkMenu.GtkMenuItem and that "window" really is a
> window (see the code above).  However for some reason it is not the same
> as the window originally created.  I am not sure what I am doing wrong. 
> Is it incorrect to try to find the top level window from a menu item in
> this way?  If I pass the window as the data pointer I can close it
> successfully. However I would rather make use of the widget parameter of
> the callback if possible. 
> 

The menu item's toplevel window is the popup menu window, not hte main
application window. 

I would suggest using gtk_object_set_data() and gtk_object_get_data() to
solve this problem.

Havoc



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