[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Way to get a reference to parent HildonAppView from its menu

[From: Kalle Vahlman]

On 1/18/06, Fred Lefévère-Laaoide <Fred at lefevere-laoide.net> wrote:
> Have you try gtk_widget_get_toplevel ?

That would give the HildonApp, as AppViews are not toplevels. You
could then of course iterate over the list of appviews and check which
has the menu...

> Luca Donaggio wrote:
> > How can I get a reference to the parent AppView giving a pointer to its
> > GtkMenu?

...but best would be to determine if there was a way around it. What
exactly is the use case?

> > gtk_menu_get_attach_widget() doesn't work and gtk_widget_get_parent()
> > returns a pointer to some unknown object (I checked it).

The menu is not attached to any widget, nor is it strictly tied to the
AppView. I'm a bit surprised thet the get_parent() actually returns
anything, as menus should be toplevel widgets. You could print the
name of the widget with gtk_widget_name() and the type with
G_OBJECT_TYPE_NAME() to see what it is.

As you see, the menu has no good connection to the view it belongs to,
so it's probably better to rethink what you are doing in a different
way if possible.

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