MenuToolButton

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Description:

[ CCode ( type_id = "gtk_menu_tool_button_get_type ()" ) ]
public class MenuToolButton : ToolButton, Implementor, Actionable, Activatable, Buildable

A MenuToolButton is a ToolItem that contains a button and a small additional button with an arrow.

When clicked, the arrow button pops up a dropdown menu.

Use MenuToolButton to create a new MenuToolButton.

GtkMenuToolButton as GtkBuildable

The GtkMenuToolButton implementation of the GtkBuildable interface supports adding a menu by specifying “menu” as the “type” attribute of a `<child>` element.

An example for a UI definition fragment with menus:

<object class="GtkMenuToolButton">
  <child type="menu">
    <object class="GtkMenu"/>
  </child>
</object>


Namespace: Gtk
Package: gtk+-3.0

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Properties:

Creation methods:

Methods:

  • public unowned Widget get_menu ()
    Gets the Menu associated with MenuToolButton.
  • public void set_arrow_tooltip_markup (string markup)
    Sets the tooltip markup text to be used as tooltip for the arrow button which pops up the menu.
  • public void set_arrow_tooltip_text (string text)
    Sets the tooltip text to be used as tooltip for the arrow button which pops up the menu.
  • public void set_menu (Widget menu)
    Sets the Menu that is popped up when the user clicks on the arrow.

Signals:

  • public virtual signal void show_menu ()
    The show_menu signal is emitted before the menu is shown.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class Gtk.ToolButton
All known members inherited from class Gtk.ToolItem
All known members inherited from class Gtk.Bin
All known members inherited from class Gtk.Container
All known members inherited from class Gtk.Widget
All known members inherited from class GLib.Object
All known members inherited from interface Atk.Implementor
All known members inherited from interface Gtk.Actionable
All known members inherited from interface Gtk.Activatable
All known members inherited from interface Gtk.Buildable