Functions

Properties

Types and Values

Object Hierarchy

    GObject
    ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰── GtkWidget
            ╰── GtkContainer
                ╰── GtkBin
                    ╰── GtkWindow
                        ╰── GtkApplicationWindow

Implemented Interfaces

GtkApplicationWindow implements AtkImplementorIface, GtkBuildable, GActionGroup and GActionMap.

Includes

#include <gtk/gtk.h>

Description

GtkApplicationWindow is a GtkWindow subclass that offers some extra functionality for better integration with GtkApplication features. Notably, it can handle both the application menu as well as the menubar. See gtk_application_set_app_menu() and gtk_application_set_menubar().

This class implements the GActionGroup and GActionMap interfaces, to let you add window-specific actions that will be exported by the associated GtkApplication, together with its application-wide actions. Window-specific actions are prefixed with the “win.” prefix and application-wide actions are prefixed with the “app.” prefix. Actions must be addressed with the prefixed name when referring to them from a GMenuModel.

Note that widgets that are placed inside a GtkApplicationWindow can also activate these actions, if they implement the GtkActionable interface.

As with GtkApplication, the GDK lock will be acquired when processing actions arriving from other processes and should therefore be held when activating actions locally (if GDK threads are enabled).

The settings “gtk-shell-shows-app-menu” and “gtk-shell-shows-menubar” tell GTK+ whether the desktop environment is showing the application menu and menubar models outside the application as part of the desktop shell. For instance, on OS X, both menus will be displayed remotely; on Windows neither will be. gnome-shell (starting with version 3.4) will display the application menu, but not the menubar.

If the desktop environment does not display the menubar, then GtkApplicationWindow will automatically show a GtkMenuBar for it. (see the GtkApplication docs for some screenshots of how this looks on different platforms). This behaviour can be overridden with the “show-menubar” property. If the desktop environment does not display the application menu, then it will automatically be included in the menubar. It can also be shown as part of client-side window decorations, e.g. by using gtk_header_bar_set_show_close_button().

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app = gtk_application_new ();

builder = gtk_builder_new ();
gtk_builder_add_from_string (builder,
    "<interface>"
    "  <menu id='menubar'>"
    "    <submenu label='_Edit'>"
    "      <item label='_Copy' action='win.copy'/>"
    "      <item label='_Paste' action='win.paste'/>"
    "    </submenu>"
    "  </menu>"
    "</interface>");

menubar = G_MENU_MODEL (gtk_builder_get_object (builder,
                                                "menubar"));
gtk_application_set_menubar (G_APPLICATION (app),
                             menubar);
g_object_unref (builder);

...

window = gtk_application_window_new (app);

Functions

GtkWidget *
gtk_application_window_new (GtkApplication *application);

void
gtk_application_window_set_show_menubar
                               (GtkApplicationWindow *window,
                                gboolean show_menubar);

gboolean
gtk_application_window_get_show_menubar
                               (GtkApplicationWindow *window);

guint
gtk_application_window_get_id (GtkApplicationWindow *window);

Types and Values

struct GtkApplicationWindow;

struct GtkApplicationWindowClass {
  GtkWindowClass parent_class;
};

Property Details

  “show-menubar”             gboolean