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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/"
xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its"
xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
type="guide" style="task"
id="toolbar_builder.vala">
<info>
<title type="text">Toolbar created using Glade (Vala)</title>
<link type="guide" xref="beginner.vala#menu-combo-toolbar"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="toolbar.vala"/>
<link type="seealso" xref="grid.vala"/>
<revision version="0.1" date="2012-05-08" status="draft"/>
<credit type="author copyright">
<name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
<email its:translate="no">tiffany.antopolski@gmail.com</email>
<years>2012</years>
</credit>
<desc>A bar of buttons</desc>
</info>
<title>Toolbar created using Glade</title>
<media type="image" mime="image/png" src="media/toolbar.png"/>
<p>This example is similar to <link xref="toolbar.vala"/>, except we use Glade to create the toolbar in an XML ui file.</p>
<p>
To create the toolbar using the <link href="http://glade.gnome.org/">Glade Interface Designer</link>:
</p>
<steps>
<item><p>Open Glade, and save the file as <file>toolbar_builder.ui</file></p>
<p><media type="image" src="media/glade_ui.png" width="900">
Screenshot of Glade ui
</media></p>
</item>
<item><p>Under <gui>Containers</gui> on the left hand side, right click on the toolbar icon and select <gui>Add widget as toplevel</gui>.</p>
<p><media type="image" src="media/glade_select_toolbar.png">
Screenshot of toolbar icon in Glade ui
</media></p>
</item>
<item><p>Under the <gui>General</gui> tab on the bottom right, change the <gui>Name</gui> to <input>toolbar</input> and <gui>Show Arrow</gui> to <gui>No</gui>.</p>
<p><media type="image" src="media/glade_toolbar_general.png">
Screenshot of General tab
</media></p>
</item>
<item><p>Under the <gui>Common</gui> tab, set <gui>Horizontal Expand</gui> to <gui>Yes</gui>.</p>
<p><media type="image" src="media/glade_toolbar_common.png">
Screenshot of Common tab
</media></p>
</item>
<item><p>Right click on the toolbar in the top right and select <gui>Edit</gui>. The <gui>Tool Bar Editor</gui> window will appear.</p>
<p><media type="image" src="media/glade_toolbar_edit.png">
Screenshot of where to right click to edit toolbar.
</media></p>
</item>
<item><p>We want to add 5 ToolButtons: New, Open, Undo, Fullscreen and Leave Fullscreen. First, we will add the New ToolButton.
</p>
<steps>
<item><p>Under <gui>Hierarchy</gui> tab, click <gui>Add</gui>.</p></item>
<item><p>Change the name of the ToolItem to <input>new_button</input>.</p></item>
<item><p>Scroll down and set <gui>Is important</gui> to <gui>Yes</gui>. This will cause the label of the ToolButton to be shown, when you view the toolbar.</p></item>
<item><p>Enter the <gui>action name</gui>: <input>app.new</input>.</p></item>
<item><p>Change the <gui>Label</gui> to <input>New</input>.</p></item>
<item><p>Select the <gui>New</gui> Stock Id from the drop down menu, or type <input>gtk-new</input>.</p></item>
</steps>
<p>
Repeat the above steps for the remaining ToolButtons, with the following properties:
</p>
<table frame="all" rules="rows">
<thead>
<tr>
<td><p>Name</p></td>
<td><p>Is important</p></td>
<td><p>Action name</p></td>
<td><p>Label</p></td>
<td><p>Stock Id</p></td>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody>
<tr>
<td><p>open_button</p></td>
<td><p>Yes</p></td>
<td><p>app.open</p></td>
<td><p>Open</p></td>
<td><p>gtk-open</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>undo_button</p></td>
<td><p>Yes</p></td>
<td><p>win.undo</p></td>
<td><p>Undo</p></td>
<td><p>gtk-undo</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>fullscreen_button</p></td>
<td><p>Yes</p></td>
<td><p>win.fullscreen</p></td>
<td><p>Fullscreen</p></td>
<td><p>gtk-fullscreen</p></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><p>leave_fullscreen_button</p></td>
<td><p>Yes</p></td>
<td><p>win.fullscreen</p></td>
<td><p>Leave Fullscreen</p></td>
<td><p>gtk-leave-fullscreen</p></td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<media type="image" src="media/glade_toolbar_editor.png">
</media>
</item>
<item><p>Close the <gui>Tool Bar Editor</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item><p>When our program will first start, we don't want the <gui>Leave Fullscreen</gui> ToolButton to be visible, since the application will not be in fullscreen mode. You can set this in the <gui>Common</gui> tab, by clicking the <gui>Visible</gui> property to <gui>No</gui>. The ToolButton will still appear in the interface designer, but will behave correctly when the file is loaded into your program code.</p>
<p><media type="image" src="media/glade_visible_no.png">
Setting the visible property to No
</media></p>
</item>
<item><p>Save your work, and close Glade.</p>
</item>
<item><p>The XML file created by Glade is shown below. This is the description of the toolbar. At the time of this writing, the option to add the class Gtk.STYLE_CLASS_PRIMARY_TOOLBAR in the Glade Interface did not exist. We can manually add this to the XML file. To do this, add the following XML code at line 9 of <file>toolbar_builder.ui</file>:</p>
<code><![CDATA[
<style>
<class name="primary-toolbar"/>
</style>
]]></code>
<p>If you do not add this, the program will still work fine. The resulting toolbar will however look slightly different then the screenshot at the top of this page.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<code mime="application/xml" style="numbered"><xi:include href="samples/toolbar_builder.ui" parse="text"><xi:fallback/></xi:include></code>
<p>We now create the code below, which adds the toolbar from the file we just created.</p>
<code mime="text/x-csharp" style="numbered"><xi:include href="samples/toolbar_builder.vala" parse="text"><xi:fallback/></xi:include></code>
<p>
In this sample we used the following:
</p>
<list>
<item><p><link href="http://www.valadoc.org/gtk+-3.0/Gtk.Toolbar.html">Gtk.Toolbar</link></p></item>
<item><p><link href="http://www.valadoc.org/gtk+-3.0/Gtk.ToolButton.html">Gtk.Toolbutton</link></p></item>
<item><p><link href="http://www.valadoc.org/gtk+-3.0/Gtk.Stock.html">Gtk.Stock</link></p></item>
</list>
</page>
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