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I remember that zerohour said that he came up with a method with which he can place a gtk_menu to a gtk_tool_item.I would like to see how that is done.(i dont want a gtk_combo tool button which is not what i want to ..i want to click to a toolbar item and then a gtk_menu to appear under that toolbar item.

Sorry I don't remember saying that. Which post?

woops sorry man it wasnt you who posted...heres the link viewtopic.php?f=3&t=55270&p=71466#p71466 i would really like to know how it can be done

Well, I guess I was the one that provided that "good-for-nothing" response;) Maybe it's time to fix this.

The idea behind that is really simple. Detect button click by connecting signal handler to one of the button's signals and pop-up the menu from there. The function you'll need is gtk_menu_popup() and here is that tricky part: the GtkMenuPositionFunc parameter. If you want to position your menu just below the button, you'll need to calculate the proper position for menu.

Currently I lack access to machine with GTK+ dev. environment, so I cannot offer any more specific help. Try playing with thi stuff a bit and see what you can come up with.

Cheers,
Tadej

God bless you....i finally managed to achieve that as you said so :) now i only need to make the correct positioning...darn.. :)