MenuToolButton

Object Hierarchy:

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

Content:

Properties:

public Menu menu { get; set; }

Creation methods:

public MenuToolButton (Widget? icon_widget, string? label)
Creates a new MenuToolButton using icon_widget as icon and label as label.
public MenuToolButton.from_stock (string stock_id)
Creates a new MenuToolButton.

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

get_child

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

ref_accessible

All known members inherited from interface Gtk.Actionable

All known members inherited from interface Gtk.Activatable

All known members inherited from interface Gtk.Buildable