Thanks.
On 2013-03-06 2:39 AM, "Giuseppe Penone" <[email protected]> wrote:
> The _("string here") is a function for internationalization, when you find
> it in the code it means the application is
> translated in several languages.
> Cheers,
> Giuseppe.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:11 AM, Steve Holmes <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> 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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>>
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