activate_action


Description:

public bool activate_action (string name, string? format_string, ...)

Looks up the action in the action groups associated with this and its ancestors, and activates it.

This is a wrapper around [method@Gtk.Widget.activate_action_variant] that constructs the args variant according to format_string.

Parameters:

this

a `GtkWidget`

name

the name of the action to activate

format_string

GVariant format string for arguments

...

arguments, as given by format string

Returns:

true if the action was activated, false if the action does not exist