Re: Re-using menus in ComboBox

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Apr 9, 2009, at 9:00 AM, Christian Jodar wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to add to a toolbar a ComboBox. This ComboBox should  
> contain
> some sub-menus of a menu in the main MenuBar. But I don't want to  
> make a
> copy by re-creating everything in the ComboBox. Because the items in  
> these
> sub-menus are some RadioMenuItems. So I'd  like that when they are  
> checked
> in the main menu, they become also checked in the corresponding item  
> of
> the ComboBox (without having to manage that manually).

For this, you want to be using GtkUIManager.  The combo would not be a  
combo but a GtkMenuToolButton.  Each item would be bound to a  
GtkAction, so the states and callbacks would be the same regardless of  
whether you were using the menu or the toolbar.

If you need something fancier, then you can derive your own widget  
from GtkToolItem.


http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/Actions.html

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/gtk-migrating-GtkAction.html



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