GtkObject
`-- GtkWidget
       `-- GtkContainer
              `-- GtkBin
                     `-- GtkItem
                            `-- GtkMenuItem
                                   `-- GtkTearoffMenuItem

Direct subclasses

None.

Description

A GtkTearoffMenuItem is a dedicated type of GtkMenuItem that can be prepended to a menu in order to give the user the option of tearing off the popped-up menu from its parent object (usually a menu item in a GtkMenuBar), and keeping it within an independant, non-resizeable GtkWindow of its own.

The widget appears as a dotted line across the top of the menu when the menu is attached to a parent object, or as a dotted line with a left-pointing arrow where the menu is detached. Clicking on the dotted line detaches an attached menu, and clicking on the arrow of a detached menu re-attaches it to the parent.