From: Joe Van Dyk <joevandyk@...>
Date: 2005-07-22T07:39:03+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby gnome question

On 7/21/05, Aredridel <aredridel@nbtsc.org> wrote:
> 
> > So, when the menu bar gets clicked, a signal gets emitted in the Menu
> > Bar object.  How can the Application Window object know that a menu
> > bar gets clicked?  Do I need to create a new signal to notify the
> > Application Window?
> 
> Just define a handler for the signal that calls methods on the
> application window object, either finding it based on navigating up the
> widget tree, or just hard-coding:
> 
> class MenuBar < Gtk::MenuBar
>   def initialize(app)
>     super()
>     # create menu buttons
>     @app = app
>     # here, connect_signal -- connect_signal('clicked') { @app.frob }
>     show
>   end
> end
> 

I forgot to mention that I had tried that already.  I think there was
a problem with the super() call in MenuBar::Initialize as it was
passing the application window object to the Gtk::MenuBar initializer.