Re: Drop down MenuToolButton

[Kjell Ahlstedt <kjell ahlstedt bredband net>]

Have you read about menus and toolbars in the gtkmm tutorial, chapter 12?
http://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm-tutorial/stable/
It contains an example with UIManager. However there is no example of a 
menu in a toolbar. I don't think that's possible. The description of 
Gtk::UIManager at
http://developer.gnome.org/gtkmm/stable/classGtk_1_1UIManager.html#details
says "every menuitem must have a menubar or popup in its ancestry". A 
toolbar won't do, it seems.

Kjell

2013-03-02 19:45, Steve Holmes skrev:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm trying to create a drop-down menu on a toolbar using the UIManager 
> and I can't figure it out. The documentation mentions something about 
> specifying a Gtk::MenuToolButton as a proxy for the associated action 
> but I'm not sure how to do that. One thing I thought was that I could 
> manually create it like this:
>
> Gtk::MenuToolButton* menu_button = manage(new Gtk::MenuToolButton());
> menu_button->set_related_action(ref_manager_action_group->get_action("MyAction");
>
> and then for the ui string:
>
> <ui>...
> ...
> <toolbar name="Toolbar">
>   <toolitem action="MyAction">
>     <menu action='ToolMenu'>
>      <menuitem action="Action1">
>      <menuitem action="Action2">
>     </menu>
>    </toolitem>
> </toolbar>
> ...
> </ui>
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> Steve
>
>
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