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<a name="ui-manager"></a>User Interface Manager Object</h2></div></div></div>
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<a class="link" href="GtkUIManager.html" title="GtkUIManager"><span class="type">GtkUIManager</span></a> is an object that can construct menu and toolbar widgets
from an XML description. These widgets are in turn associated to
corresponding actions and action groups.
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<a class="link" href="GtkUIManager.html" title="GtkUIManager"><span class="type">GtkUIManager</span></a> supports merging of menus and toolbars for applications
that have multiple components, each with separate sets of commands.
For example, a word processor that can embed images may want to have
toolbar buttons for Bold and Italic when the cursor is on a text
block, but Crop and Brightness/Contrast buttons when the cursor
is on an image. These actions, which change depending on the
state of the application, can be merged and de-merged from a
<a class="link" href="GtkUIManager.html" title="GtkUIManager"><span class="type">GtkUIManager</span></a> as appropriate.
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