MenuButton (JavaScript)

MenuButton (JavaScript) Anna Zacchi azzurroverde@gmail.com 2012 A widget that shows a menu when clicked on Rafael Ferreira rafael.f.f1@gmail.com 2013 MenuButton

The GtkMenuButton widget is used to display a menu when clicked on. This menu can be provided either as a GtkMenu, or an abstract GMenuModel. The GtkMenuButton widget can hold any valid child widget. That is, it can hold almost any other standard GtkWidget. The most commonly used child is the provided GtkArrow.

You need to be running GNOME 3.6 or later for the MenuButton to work.

#!/usr/bin/gjs

imports.gi.versions.Gtk = '3.0';

const Gio = imports.gi.Gio;
const GLib = imports.gi.GLib;
const Gtk = imports.gi.Gtk;

class Application {

    //create the application
    constructor() {
        this.application = new Gtk.Application({
            application_id: 'org.example.myapp',
            flags: Gio.ApplicationFlags.FLAGS_NONE
        });

        //connect to 'activate' and 'startup' signals to the callback functions
        this.application.connect('activate', this._onActivate.bind(this));
        this.application.connect('startup', this._onStartup.bind(this));
    }

    //create the UI (in this case it's just the ApplicationWindow)
    _buildUI() {
        this._window = new Gtk.ApplicationWindow({ application: this.application,
                                                   window_position: Gtk.WindowPosition.CENTER,
                                                   title: "MenuButton Example" });
        this._window.set_default_size(600, 400);
        this.grid = new Gtk.Grid();
        this._window.add(this.grid);


        this._menuButton = new Gtk.MenuButton();
        this.grid.attach(this._menuButton, 0, 0, 1, 1 );
        this.menu = Gtk.Menu.new_from_model(this.menuModel);

        this.menu.show();
        this._menuButton.set_menu_model (this.menuModel);
        this._menuButton.set_size_request(80, 35);
        this._menuButton.show();

        this._window.show_all();
    }

    _showNew() {
        print("You clicked \"New\"");
    }

    _showAbout() {
        print("You clicked \"About\"");
    }

    //create the menu items and connect the signals to the callback functions.
    _initMenus() {
        let newAction = new Gio.SimpleAction({ name: 'new' });
        newAction.connect('activate', () => { this._showNew(); });
        this.application.add_action(newAction);

        let aboutAction = new Gio.SimpleAction({ name: 'about' });
        aboutAction.connect('activate', () => { this._showAbout(); });
        this.application.add_action(aboutAction);

        let quitAction = new Gio.SimpleAction({ name: 'quit' });
        quitAction.connect('activate', () => { this._window.destroy(); });
         this.application.add_action(quitAction);

        this.menuModel = new Gio.Menu();

        this.menuItemNew = Gio.MenuItem.new("New", 'app.new');
        this.menuItemAbout = Gio.MenuItem.new("About", 'app.about');
        this.fileMenuItem = Gio.MenuItem.new("Other", null);

        this.menuModel.append_item(this.menuItemNew);
        this.menuModel.append_item(this.menuItemAbout);

        //submenu
        this.subMenu = new Gio.Menu();
        this.fileMenuItem.set_submenu(this.subMenu);
        this.menuItemQuit = Gio.MenuItem.new("Quit", 'app.quit');
        this.subMenu.append_item(this.menuItemQuit);
        this.menuModel.append_item(this.fileMenuItem);
    }

    //callback function for 'activate' signal
    _onActivate() {
        this._window.present();
    }

    //callback function for 'startup' signal
    _onStartup() {
        //You must call _initMenus() before calling _buildUI().
        this._initMenus();
        this._buildUI();
    }
};

//run the application
let app = new Application();
app.application.run(ARGV);

In this sample we used the following:

MenuButton