Re: What is acceptable as an action proxy ?

[Matthias Clasen <maclas gmx de>]

Am Fre, 2003-08-29 um 16.42 schrieb Owen Taylor:
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 19:53, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > Currently, GtkActions can connect to toolbuttons and menuitems. It would
> > be very easy to make this work for regular buttons as well. While I
> > don't think it makes a lot of sense to generate the buttons from an
> > XML ui description, being able to write
> > 
> >   button = gtk_toggle_button_new ();
> >   action = gtk_action_group_get_action (action_group, "toggle-cnp");
> >   gtk_action_connect_proxy (action, button);
> > 
> > and have the button automatically activate the same action as the
> > corresponding menu and toolbar entries and monitor the sensitivity of
> > the action might be handy.
> > 
> > What do you think about this ?
> 
> It don't really see this as being that useful. When are you thinking
> you would want this?
> 

I don't have a concrete use case in mind. It was more a principal
consideration that once you have a model-view separation for menus and
toolbars based on actions, it makes sense to allow buttons to be views
of actions as well. Maybe you're right that the situations where it
would be useful are rare.

Matthias