Re: [Gtk2hs-users] Duplication of code in Actions

[Mauricio <bri...@ya...>]

Look at:

http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/stable/GtkUIManager.html#XML-UI

It says clearly that uimanager strings should not
be confused with glade strings, although they do
share a lot. It also states that:

   “If a name is not specified, it defaults to the
   action. If an action is not specified either,
   the element name is used.”

I ran a test, however, and the result was that a
missing 'action' value always disable an item and
prints:

(gtk:6997): Gtk-WARNING **: DummyAction: missing action (null)

I only ran the test with a 'menubar'.

Best,
Maurício

> I use glade and the glade casting function in GTK2HS and never have to
> worry about putting in the names. The only thing I have add is the
> "onActivateLeaf" code.
> 
> For example, my glade file has a typical "About" defined on the help menu
> and to make it all work I only need the following code:
> 
>     aboutMenuItem <- xmlGetWidget qsXml castToMenuItem "about"
>     aboutMenuItem `onActivateLeaf` showAboutDialog qs qsAbout
> 
> 
> where:
> - qsXml is the xml retrived by "retrieveGladeXML"
> - '"about"' is the name I used for the menuitem in glade
> - showAboutDialog is my function showing the about dialog.
> - qs is my main window, qsAbout is the dialog

>> Slight correction:  Glade and libglade.  Glade is the GUI editor/code
>> generator, libglade is the component that reads the generated XML and
>> constructs widgets from it.

>>>>> I think you want to look at Glade, and I *think* the problem is that
>>>>> Glade knows how to