<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >How can I retrieve the text from a GtkMenuItem?</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.79"><LINK REL="HOME" TITLE="GTK+ FAQ" HREF="book1.html"><LINK REL="UP" TITLE="Development with GTK+: widget specific questions" HREF="c698.html"><LINK REL="PREVIOUS" TITLE="How do I add some underlined accelerators to menu items?" HREF="x771.html"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="How do I right (or otherwise) justify a GtkLabel?" HREF="x789.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="SECT1" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="NAVHEADER" ><TABLE SUMMARY="Header navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TH COLSPAN="3" ALIGN="center" >GTK+ FAQ</TH ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x771.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="80%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="bottom" >Development with GTK+: widget specific questions</TD ><TD WIDTH="10%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="bottom" ><A HREF="x789.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"></DIV ><DIV CLASS="SECT1" ><H1 CLASS="SECT1" ><A NAME="AEN779" >How can I retrieve the text from a GtkMenuItem?</A ></H1 ><P >You can usually retrieve the label of a specific GtkMenuItem with:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > if (GTK_BIN (menu_item)->child) { GtkWidget *child = GTK_BIN (menu_item)->child; /* do stuff with child */ if (GTK_IS_LABEL (child)) { gchar *text; gtk_label_get (GTK_LABEL (child), &text); g_print ("menu item text: %s\n", text); } }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >To get the active menu item from a GtkOptionMenu you can do:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" >if (GTK_OPTION_MENU (option_menu)->menu_item) { GtkWidget *menu_item = GTK_OPTION_MENU (option_menu)->menu_item; }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ><P >But, there's a catch. For this specific case, you can <I CLASS="EMPHASIS" >not</I > get the label widget from <TT CLASS="LITERAL" >menu_item</TT > with the above code, because the option menu reparents the menu_item's child temporarily to display the currently active contents. So to retrive the child of the currently active menu_item of an option menu, you'll have to do:</P ><TABLE BORDER="0" BGCOLOR="#E0E0E0" WIDTH="100%" ><TR ><TD ><PRE CLASS="PROGRAMLISTING" > if (GTK_BIN (option_menu)->child) { GtkWidget *child = GTK_BIN (option_menu)->child; /* do stuff with child */ }</PRE ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x771.html" ACCESSKEY="P" ><<< Previous</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="book1.html" ACCESSKEY="H" >Home</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="x789.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next >>></A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" >How do I add some underlined accelerators to menu items?</TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="c698.html" ACCESSKEY="U" >Up</A ></TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >How do I right (or otherwise) justify a GtkLabel?</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >