How to best import a menu from a glade file and then connect signals to them?

ats · April 12, 2023, 3:42am

I have two files. The Glade file describes a very simple GUI. The *.adb file imports this and then attaches signal procedures to them. The problem is that when I try to run the binary, the menu items are gray and disabled. Why?

Glade file:

gist.github.com

https://gist.github.com/andrew-shvets/dad2c9ab93930e5c75e5f5b8f1d2f9b1

.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- Generated with glade 3.16.1 -->
<interface>
  <requires lib="gtk+" version="3.10"/>
  <object class="GtkWindow" id="window1">
    <property name="can_focus">False</property>
    <property name="title" translatable="yes">Simple Editor With Glade</property>
    <property name="default_width">700</property>
    <property name="default_height">400</property>
    <child>

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glade_example.adb:

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https://gist.github.com/andrew-shvets/ed7112944c8a3cb2478f63730d57d4b7

gistfile1.txt

with Ada.Text_IO;

with Glib;       use Glib;
with Glib.Error;

with Gtk.Main;

package body Glade_Example is
  procedure Run is
    Error : aliased Glib.Error.GError;

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[EDIT]

I’ve managed to get it to do what I want. What I’ve done differently was add this line of code after each “Show” procedure call for an ImageMenuItem:

Gtk.Image_Menu_Item.Set_Sensitive(…);

Basically, I forced for that menu item to become sensitive. What I don’t understand is, this value should have been set in the Glade file to True, so the menu item should have been sensitive from the very beginning…

tiberius · April 22, 2023, 8:20pm

The glade XML doesn’t contain anything related to the menu items being sensitive. Maybe it wasn’t applied fully or didn’t save your settings?