bug#8176: 24.0.50; GUI toolkit differences

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> writes:

> Either this is a bug in GTK or how emacs interfaces with the library
> (seems unlikely, more likely a desing constraint of GTK) and should be
> fixed or a footnote added to the manual to let developers know of this
> limitation in some toolkits, noteably GTK based ones.
>
> The following code was evaluated within the scratch buffer. I confirmed
> it works fine under emacs 24 built with lucid, but fails to work when
> built with GTK2+. Others reported it worked find under win32, but failed
> on ns. 
>
> (defun tx-greet ()
>   (interactive) 
>   (message "Hello Tim!"))
>
> (defun tx-menu ()
>   (interactive)
>   (define-key lisp-interaction-mode-map [menu-bar tx]
>     '(menu-item "TX Test" tx-greet)))

I can confirm that this doesn't work under GTK Emacs.

Do you have a suggestion where this limitation should be documented? 

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