Thanks Giuseppe, your code is very helpful.
I ended up using something very similar after reading a Gtk-Perl tutorial.
My previous reply on the list gives the site url and the code I ended up
using.
Forgive me if this is a dumb question but what does the underscore bracket
'_(' do in the set_tooltip_text() parameter? I've seen the same thing used
in C++ examples but I always got errors when I tried to compile so I
removed them.
regards,
Steve
On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Giuseppe Penone <[email protected]> wrote:
> If it can be of any help, I faced the same problem and end up doing the
> toolbar with ui manager and then adding
> a menutoolbutton later.
>
> I paste my few lines of code (in python, don't have this in gtkmm) if can
> be of help:
>
> inst.recent_menu_2 = gtk.Menu()
> ...
> menu_toolbutton = gtk.MenuToolButton("gtk-open")
> menu_toolbutton.set_tooltip_text(_("Open a CherryTree Document"))
> menu_toolbutton.set_arrow_tooltip_text(_("Open a Recent CherryTree
> Document"))
> menu_toolbutton.set_menu(inst.recent_menu_2)
> menu_toolbutton.connect("clicked", inst.file_open)
> inst.ui.get_widget("/ToolBar").insert(menu_toolbutton, 9)
>
> Cheers,
> Giuseppe.
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 3:42 PM, Kjell Ahlstedt <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Have you read about menus and toolbars in the gtkmm tutorial, chapter 12?
>> http://developer.gnome.org/**gtkmm-tutorial/stable/<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<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
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Steve Holmes
>>> M: 416-791-3868
>>>
>>>
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