Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] The empty "Tools" menu toplevel item must be removed before
Got it...
gtk_item_factory_get_item() is exactly what I needed!
On 10/17/06, LEGO <luis.ontanon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 10/16/06, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
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> You maybe keep it in it's place and just hide it (using the
> gtk_widget_hide/show calls for the menu item widget). That's usually
> *much* simpler than finding and inserting at the right place in the
> hierarchy later again.
That I thought as well... but I did not find out how to get a ptr to the menu.
> It should be possible to get the GTK widget pointer from the menu item
> factory somehow, that's how the statistics items are handled when I
> remember correct.
I looked for a way to get a pointer to the widget in menu.c but I
didn't find it... Neither did I found anything helpful in the GTK2
Ref...
> If you get stuck, I may be able to help you here.
I'm stuck... and help would be very welcome :)
> > On 10/16/06, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >> IF the lua scripting would only be missing some features and show some bugs from time to time that would be ok.
> >>
> > It's still missing features...
> > It isn't yet documented...
> > But I'm at the point in which others have to help me find the bugs...
> > I don't know of any I haven't fixed... I know there are many more but
> > I just don't know where.
> >
> So updating the docs should be the next step.
> >
> >> BUT - AFAIK the lua scripting support is just buggy, the documentation is outdated and misleading, ...
> >>
> > I'll be working on the documentation on the next few days, I'll pull
> > out at least a summary reference manual, and some examples.
> >
> >
> Sounds good.
> >> ... in it's current form it's just not ready for "prime time" IMHO.
> >>
> > That's my opinion as well, btw It does no harm unless invoked. So I
> > prefer it there (maybe disabled from the init.lua) but available.
> >
> >
> ACK. As long as it won't show up in the GUI as default it's just fine.
> Showing it if some lua scripts are available is ok as well.
> >> Releasing it to the public now will end in a lot of discussion, discouraging a lot of users about bugs and alike - they will never try it again when it's actually ready.
> >>
> > What do you mean by releasing it?
> > Source code its been in the repo (and source tarballs) for months...
> > A Binary (plugin) for windows has been available since Ethereal...
> >
> >
> Well, mention it in the release notes, mentioning it to users if someone
> asks, moving the docs from the development to the users part of the
> wiki, ...
> >> Everything has it's time, and the current lua integration isn't there yet IMHO.
> >>
> > Which are the milestones?
> >
> >
> Well, it's your task to set the milestones, I guess the next is to write
> some decent docs/wiki pages :-)
>
> Regards, ULFL
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