Re: making menuitems insensitive by app context

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

I'm sorry Rob; I don't use libglademm, so I cannot help you there.

Bob Caryl

Rob Benton wrote:

> Bob Caryl wrote:
>
> > Rob Benton wrote:
> >
> > > I'm looking for a way, maybe a signal, to make my menuitems 
> > > sensitive/insensitive based on the state of my program.  Using 
> > > gnome-terminal as an example, something like:
> > >
> > > Edit->Copy
> > >
> > > only being sensitive when you have text highlighted.
> > >
> > > Is there some way I can capture the click/button_press of the 
> > > Gtk::Menu?
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> > If you are using a Gtk::ActionGroup widget to set up your menu you 
> > can, upon detecting a condition within your application that requires 
> > a particular menu item to be insensitive, use 
> > Gtk::ActionGroup::get_action to obtain a Glib::RefPtr<Action> to the 
> > menu item you wish to set to insensitive.  Once that pointer is 
> > obtained use Gtk::Action::set_sensitive to set its sensitivity state.
> >
> > Bob Caryl
>
> Hmm.  Unless I'm overlooking something it doesn't look like there's a 
> way to do this through libglademm.  I guess I'll just have to choose 1 
> way or the other.