NavigationView

Object Hierarchy:

Description:

[ CCode ( type_id = "adw_navigation_view_get_type ()" ) ]
[ Version ( since = "1.4" ) ]
public sealed class NavigationView : Widget, Swipeable, Accessible, Buildable, ConstraintTarget

A page-based navigation container.

`AdwNavigationView` presents one child at a time, similar to [class@Gtk.Stack].

`AdwNavigationView` can only contain [class@NavigationPage] children.

It maintains a navigation stack that can be controlled with [method@NavigationView.push] and [method@NavigationView.pop]. The whole navigation stack can also be replaced using [method@NavigationView.replace].

`AdwNavigationView` allows to manage pages statically or dynamically.

Static pages can be added using the [method@NavigationView.add] method. The `AdwNavigationView` will keep a reference to these pages, but they aren't accessible to the user until [method@NavigationView.push] is called (except for the first page, which is pushed automatically). Use the [ method@NavigationView.remove] method to remove them. This is useful for applications that have a small number of unique pages and just need navigation between them.

Dynamic pages are automatically destroyed once they are popped off the navigation stack. To add a page like this, push it using the [ method@NavigationView.push] method without calling [method@NavigationView.add] first.

Header Bar Integration

When used inside `AdwNavigationView`, [class@HeaderBar] will automatically display a back button that can be used to go back to the previous page when possible. The button also has a context menu, allowing to pop multiple pages at once, potentially across multiple navigation views.

Set [property@HeaderBar:show-back-button] to `FALSE` to disable this behavior if it's unwanted.

`AdwHeaderBar` will also display the title of the `AdwNavigationPage` it's placed into, so most applications shouldn't need to customize it at all.

Shortcuts and Gestures

`AdwNavigationView` supports the following shortcuts for going to the previous page:

<kbd>Escape</kbd> (unless [property@NavigationView:pop-on-escape] is set to `FALSE`)
<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>←</kbd>
Back mouse button

Additionally, it supports interactive gestures:

One-finger swipe towards the right on touchscreens
Scrolling towards the right on touchpads (usually two-finger swipe)

These gestures have transitions enabled regardless of the [property@NavigationView:animate-transitions] value.

Applications can also enable shortcuts for pushing another page onto the navigation stack via connecting to the [signal@NavigationView:AdwNavigationView:get-next-page] signal, in that case the following shortcuts are supported:

<kbd>Alt</kbd>+<kbd>→</kbd>
Forward mouse button
Swipe/scrolling towards the left

For right-to-left locales, the gestures and shortcuts are reversed.

[property@NavigationPage:can-pop] can be used to disable them, along with the header bar back buttons.

Actions

`AdwNavigationView` defines actions for controlling the navigation stack. actions for controlling the navigation stack:

`navigation.push` takes a string parameter specifying the tag of the page to push, and is equivalent to calling [ method@NavigationView.push_by_tag].
`navigation.pop` doesn't take any parameters and pops the current page from the navigation stack, equivalent to calling [ method@NavigationView.pop].

`AdwNavigationView` as `GtkBuildable`

`AdwNavigationView` allows to add pages as children, equivalent to using the [method@NavigationView.add] method.

Example of an `AdwNavigationView` UI definition:

```xml <object class="AdwNavigationView"> <child> <object class="AdwNavigationPage"> <property name="title" translatable="yes">Page 1</property> <property name="child"> <object class="AdwToolbarView"> <child type="top"> <object class="AdwHeaderBar"/> </child> <property name="content"> <object class="GtkButton"> <property name="label" translatable="yes">Open Page 2</property> <property name="halign">center</property> <property name="valign">center</property> <property name="action-name">navigation.push</property> <property name="action-target" >'page-2'</property> <style> <class name="pill"/> </style> </object> </property> </object> </property> </object> </child> <child> <object class="AdwNavigationPage"> <property name="title" translatable="yes">Page 2</property> <property name="tag">page-2</property> <property name="child"> <object class="AdwToolbarView"> <child type="top"> <object class="AdwHeaderBar"/> </child> <property name="content">  </property> </object> </property> </object> </child> </object> ```

CSS nodes

`AdwNavigationView` has a single CSS node with the name `navigation-view`.

Accessibility

`AdwNavigationView` uses the `GTK_ACCESSIBLE_ROLE_GROUP` role.

Namespace: Adw

Package: libadwaita-1

Content:

Properties:

public bool animate_transitions { get; set; }
Whether to animate page transitions.
public ListModel navigation_stack { owned get; }
A list model that contains the pages in navigation stack.
public bool pop_on_escape { get; set; }
Whether pressing Escape pops the current page.
public NavigationPage visible_page { get; }
The currently visible page.

Creation methods:

public NavigationView ()
Creates a new `AdwNavigationView`.

Methods:

public void add (NavigationPage page)
Permanently adds page to this .
public unowned NavigationPage? find_page (string tag)
Finds a page in this by its tag.
public bool get_animate_transitions ()
Gets whether this animates page transitions.
public ListModel get_navigation_stack ()
Returns a [iface@Gio.
public bool get_pop_on_escape ()
Gets whether pressing Escape pops the current page on this.
public unowned NavigationPage? get_previous_page (NavigationPage page)
Gets the previous page for page.
public unowned NavigationPage? get_visible_page ()
Gets the currently visible page in this.
public bool pop ()
Pops the visible page from the navigation stack.
public bool pop_to_page (NavigationPage page)
Pops pages from the navigation stack until page is visible.
public bool pop_to_tag (string tag)
Pops pages from the navigation stack until page with the tag tag is visible.
public void push (NavigationPage page)
Pushes page onto the navigation stack.
public void push_by_tag (string tag)
Pushes the page with the tag tag onto the navigation stack.
public void remove (NavigationPage page)
Removes page from this.
public void replace (NavigationPage[] pages)
Replaces the current navigation stack with pages.
public void replace_with_tags (string[] tags)
Replaces the current navigation stack with pages with the tags tags.
public void set_animate_transitions (bool animate_transitions)
Sets whether this should animate page transitions.
public void set_pop_on_escape (bool pop_on_escape)
Sets whether pressing Escape pops the current page on this.

Signals:

public signal NavigationPage? get_next_page ()
Emitted when a push shortcut or a gesture is triggered.
public signal void popped (NavigationPage page)
Emitted after page has been popped from the navigation stack.
public signal void pushed ()
Emitted after a page has been pushed to the navigation stack.
public signal void replaced ()
Emitted after the navigation stack has been replaced.

Inherited Members:

All known members inherited from class Gtk.Widget

All known members inherited from class GLib.Object

All known members inherited from interface Adw.Swipeable

get_swipe_area

All known members inherited from interface Gtk.Accessible

All known members inherited from interface Gtk.Buildable