Interface

GioActionGroup

Description

interface Gio.ActionGroup : GObject.Object

GActionGroup represents a group of actions.

Actions can be used to expose functionality in a structured way, either from one part of a program to another, or to the outside world. Action groups are often used together with a GMenuModel that provides additional representation data for displaying the actions to the user, e.g. in a menu.

The main way to interact with the actions in a GActionGroup is to activate them with g_action_group_activate_action(). Activating an action may require a GVariant parameter. The required type of the parameter can be inquired with g_action_group_get_action_parameter_type(). Actions may be disabled, see g_action_group_get_action_enabled(). Activating a disabled action has no effect.

Actions may optionally have a state in the form of a GVariant. The current state of an action can be inquired with g_action_group_get_action_state(). Activating a stateful action may change its state, but it is also possible to set the state by calling g_action_group_change_action_state().

As typical example, consider a text editing application which has an option to change the current font to ‘bold’. A good way to represent this would be a stateful action, with a boolean state. Activating the action would toggle the state.

Each action in the group has a unique name (which is a string). All method calls, except g_action_group_list_actions() take the name of an action as an argument.

The GActionGroup API is meant to be the ‘public’ API to the action group. The calls here are exactly the interaction that ‘external forces’ (eg: UI, incoming D-Bus messages, etc.) are supposed to have with actions. ‘Internal’ APIs (ie: ones meant only to be accessed by the action group implementation) are found on subclasses. This is why you will find – for example – g_action_group_get_action_enabled() but not an equivalent set_action_enabled() method.

Signals are emitted on the action group in response to state changes on individual actions.

Implementations of GActionGroup should provide implementations for the virtual functions g_action_group_list_actions() and g_action_group_query_action(). The other virtual functions should not be implemented — their ‘wrappers’ are actually implemented with calls to g_action_group_query_action().

Prerequisite

In order to implement ActionGroup, your type must inherit fromGObject.

Implementations

Instance methods

g_action_group_action_added

Emits the GActionGroup::action-added signal on action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_action_enabled_changed

Emits the GActionGroup::action-enabled-changed signal on action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_action_removed

Emits the GActionGroup::action-removed signal on action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_action_state_changed

Emits the GActionGroup::action-state-changed signal on action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_activate_action

Activate the named action within action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_change_action_state

Request for the state of the named action within action_group to be changed to value.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_get_action_enabled

Checks if the named action within action_group is currently enabled.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_get_action_parameter_type

Queries the type of the parameter that must be given when activating the named action within action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_get_action_state

Queries the current state of the named action within action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_get_action_state_hint

Requests a hint about the valid range of values for the state of the named action within action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_get_action_state_type

Queries the type of the state of the named action within action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_has_action

Checks if the named action exists within action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_list_actions

Lists the actions contained within action_group.

since: 2.28

g_action_group_query_action

Queries all aspects of the named action within an action_group.

since: 2.32

Signals

Gio.ActionGroup::action-added

Signals that a new action was just added to the group.

since: 2.28

Gio.ActionGroup::action-enabled-changed

Signals that the enabled status of the named action has changed.

since: 2.28

Gio.ActionGroup::action-removed

Signals that an action is just about to be removed from the group.

since: 2.28

Gio.ActionGroup::action-state-changed

Signals that the state of the named action has changed.

since: 2.28

Interface structure

struct GioActionGroupInterface {
  GTypeInterface g_iface;
  gboolean (* has_action) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name
  );
  gchar** (* list_actions) (
    GActionGroup* action_group
  );
  gboolean (* get_action_enabled) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name
  );
  const GVariantType* (* get_action_parameter_type) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name
  );
  const GVariantType* (* get_action_state_type) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name
  );
  GVariant* (* get_action_state_hint) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name
  );
  GVariant* (* get_action_state) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name
  );
  void (* change_action_state) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name,
    GVariant* value
  );
  void (* activate_action) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name,
    GVariant* parameter
  );
  void (* action_added) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name
  );
  void (* action_removed) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name
  );
  void (* action_enabled_changed) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name,
    gboolean enabled
  );
  void (* action_state_changed) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name,
    GVariant* state
  );
  gboolean (* query_action) (
    GActionGroup* action_group,
    const gchar* action_name,
    gboolean* enabled,
    const GVariantType** parameter_type,
    const GVariantType** state_type,
    GVariant** state_hint,
    GVariant** state
  );
  
}

The virtual function table for GActionGroup.

Interface members

`g_iface`	`GTypeInterface`
	No description available.
`has_action`	`gboolean (* has_action) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name )`
	No description available.
`list_actions`	`gchar** (* list_actions) ( GActionGroup* action_group )`
	No description available.
`get_action_enabled`	`gboolean (* get_action_enabled) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name )`
	No description available.
`get_action_parameter_type`	`const GVariantType* (* get_action_parameter_type) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name )`
	No description available.
`get_action_state_type`	`const GVariantType* (* get_action_state_type) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name )`
	No description available.
`get_action_state_hint`	`GVariant* (* get_action_state_hint) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name )`
	No description available.
`get_action_state`	`GVariant* (* get_action_state) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name )`
	No description available.
`change_action_state`	`void (* change_action_state) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name, GVariant* value )`
	No description available.
`activate_action`	`void (* activate_action) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name, GVariant* parameter )`
	No description available.
`action_added`	`void (* action_added) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name )`
	No description available.
`action_removed`	`void (* action_removed) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name )`
	No description available.
`action_enabled_changed`	`void (* action_enabled_changed) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name, gboolean enabled )`
	No description available.
`action_state_changed`	`void (* action_state_changed) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name, GVariant* state )`
	No description available.
`query_action`	`gboolean (* query_action) ( GActionGroup* action_group, const gchar* action_name, gboolean* enabled, const GVariantType parameter_type, const GVariantType state_type, GVariant state_hint, GVariant state )`
	No description available.

Description

Prerequisite

Implementations

Instance methods

Signals

Interface structure

Interface members

Virtual methods