Re: Using Gtk.Builder to create a menubar.

[Luca Bacci <luca bacci982 gmail com>]

Yes, actions get a prefix depending on where you put them. Every "action
container" has a prefix. In your case you add_action() to
GtkApplicationWindow and its prefix is "win"

I used your code to create an answer to my StackOverflow question
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/50051155/4865723

great!

Luca

2018-04-27 12:24 GMT+02:00 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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