Re: Using Gtk.Builder to create a menubar.

[Marius Gedminas <marius gedmin as>]

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 09:46:57PM +0200, c buhtz posteo jp wrote:
> Thank you very much. Your example works for me but I don't understand
> why. ;)
>
> >                 <attribute name='action'>win.bar</attribute>
>
> >         action_bar = Gio.SimpleAction.new('bar', None)
>
> The name of the action in the XML and the code is different. Why? What
> is the system behind it?

"bar" is the name of the action.  "win" describes the action's scope.

Check out the "Action scopes" section in https://developer.gnome.org/GAction/
and a brief discussion on "quit" vs "app.quit" in the GActionMap
section.

Marius Gedminas
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