Re: GtkUIManager questions.

[Archit Baweja <bighead users sourceforge net>]

Hey Nils

"Nils O." SelÃsdal <noselasd frisurf no> writes:

> On Thu, 2004-06-24 at 19:41, Archit Baweja wrote:
> > Hey Nils,
> > 
> > I'm guessing you didn't have previous experience with libbonoboui menus.
> None.
> > "Nils O." SelÃsdal <noselasd frisurf no> writes:
> > 
> > > I have a few GtkUIManager questions, first, is there
> > > some nice tutorials/guides anywhere ?
> > > 1 With the following:
> > > <ui><popup name="ProjectPopup>
> > >        <menuitem name="Build" action="Build"/>
> > >       <menuitem name="Execute" action="Execute"/>
> > >       <separator/>
> > >       <menuitem name="MoveUp" action="MoveUp"/>
> > >       <menuitem name="MoveDown" action="MoveDown"/>
> > >       <separator/>
> > >       <menuitem name="Remove" action="Remove"/>
> > >   </popup>
> > > </ui>
> > > Only the first separator shows, not the second !
> > 
> > Hmm, I don't know why it isn't showing. Is it showing the "Remove" menuitem?
> Yes.
> It seems to work if I give each separator a diffrent name attribute
> though.

Yeah, someone else replied regarding that. It should work without that though.
It should be in bugzilla.

> > > 
> > > 2. What's the <placeholder> for ?
> > 
> > placeholder is for menu merging. For example if you have 
> > 
> > "<ui>"
> > "  <menubar name='MainMenu'>"
> > "    <menu name='FileMenu' action='FileMenu'>"
> > "      <menuitem action='New'/>"
> > "      <placeholder name='FileMenuAdditions'/>"
> > "      <menuitem action='Exit'/>"
> > "    </menu>"
> > "  </menubar>"
> > "</ui>"
> > 
> > once you create a GtkUIManager etc with it. you can do something like
> > 
> > gtk_ui_manager_add_ui_from_string with a new string
> > 
> > <ui>
> >   <menubar name='MainMenu'>
> >     <menu name='FileMenu' action='FileMenu'
> >     <placeholder name='FileMenuAdditions'/>
> >       <menuitem action='Save'/>
> >     </placeholder>
> >     </menu>
> >   </menubar>
> > </ui>
> > 
> > So the Save menuitem will show up after 'New' and before 'Exit' menuitem.
> > 
> >     
> > > 3. Constructing a menubar, how can I replace (and later
> > >    reenable) an entire menu, say I want to replace
> > >    a top "File" menu at a time, and later put it back.
> > 
> > after constructing GtkUIManager etc, you can do something like
> > 
> > GtkWidget *foo;
> > foo = gtk_ui_manager_get_widget (ui_manager, "/MainMenu/FileMenu");
> > gtk_widget_hide (foo);
> > 
> > to hide the menu.
> Ok, and now I can just add another menu where the "FileMenu" was ?

Well if you have a <placeholder thrown in there somewhere, it's easy.
Otherwise all new menus will be added at the end.

Regards
Archit

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