Re: gtk-menu-popup

[steve tell]

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, a r wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I can't access "gtk-menu-popup" function (either directly or via a
> generic "popup" method). Other functions like "gtk-menu-popdown" seem
> to be working find. Is it something wrong with my installation?
>
> I've compiled guile-gnome-platform-2.15.96 with g-wrap-1.9.9 and
> gtk-2.10.0. Grepping source code for "gtk-menu-popup" does not return
> anything but some entries in the documentation.

It seems to have gone missing somewhere between 2.15.94 and 2.15.96, as 
this diff of gtk/gnome/overrides/defs shows:

***************
*** 240,260 ****

  ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
  ;; GtkMenu
- ;; fixme: need a better wrapper for this one
- (define-method popup
-   (of-object "GtkMenu")
-   (c-name "gtk_menu_popup")
-   (overrides "gtk_menu_popup")
-   (return-type "none")
-   (parameters
-     '("GtkWidget*" "parent_menu_shell" (null-ok))
-     '("GtkWidget*" "parent_menu_item" (null-ok))
-     '("GtkMenuPositionFunc" "func" (null-ok))
-     '("gpointer" "data" (null-ok))
-     '("guint" "button")
-     '("guint32" "activate_time")
-   )
- )


I think it probably got caught up in the recent "remove functions 
requiring non-instantiable types as arguments" cleanup that Andy did for 
2.15.96.

In this case that cleanup was a bit too agressive; gtk-menu-popup (or 
method popup on a GtkMenu object) actually was quite usable; even though 
there was no way to create a GtkMenuPositionFunc object to pass as 
the third argument, #f worked quite nicely thanks to the null-ok
attribute.   Likewise, I don't think the 4th "gpointer" arg was of much
use, but passing #f let it work.

That's probably part of what the comment "fixme: need a better wrapper" 
meant in the older version.  Any chance this method function could be 
revived?

Steve