Toolbars
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## Toolbars

Applications often use `Toolbar`s to provide shortcuts to commonly-used menu items, such as File|Open or File|Save. They contain a row of buttons, usually with an icon. Each toolbar item can have an icon, a label, and a tooltip. You will often be able to reuse standard gtkmm stock items such as `Gtk::Stock::SAVE`.

Elements are inserted by using classes from the `Gtk::Toolbar_Helpers` namespace. The various helper objects are:

- `Element` - used for inserting arbitrary widgets

- `Space` - a blank spot, used to separate groups of elements

- `ButtonElem` - a regular button element

- `ToggleElem` - a toggle-button element

- `RadioElem` - a radio-button element

Here's the constructor for `Element`:

    Element(Widget& w,
            const Glib::ustring& tooltip_text=0,
            const Glib::ustring& tooltip_private_text=0);

`w` is the widget to insert, and `tooltip_text` is the text for the element's tooltip. You can ignore `tooltip_private_text`.

The constructors for `ButtonElem` and `ToggleElem` are exactly alike; each has three forms. Here are the `ButtonElem` constructors:

    // text + icon
    ButtonElem(const Glib::ustring& text,
               Widget        & content,
               SigC::Slot0<void>        callback,
               const Glib::ustring& tooltip_text=0,
               const Glib::ustring& tooltip_private_text=0);

    // icon only
    ButtonElem(Widget        & content,
               SigC::Slot0<void>        callback,
               const Glib::ustring& tooltip_text=0,
               const Glib::ustring& tooltip_private_text=0);

    // text only
    ButtonElem(const Glib::ustring& text,
               SigC::Slot0<void>        callback,
               const Glib::ustring& tooltip_text=0,
               const Glib::ustring& tooltip_private_text=0);

The only difference between these is whether they take an icon, text, or both as arguments. `text` is the text to display below the icon. `content` is the icon; note that any widget can be inserted here, but generally this will be a pixmap or other display widget. `callback` is the signal handler to use for the button. `tooltip_text` will be displayed in the button's tooltip, and you can safely ignore `tooltip_private_text`.

The `RadioElem` constructors are the same as those for `ButtonElem` and `RadioElem`, but they take an additional argument specifying the group for the radio button. Here they are:

    // text + icon
    RadioElem(Gtk::RadioButton_Helpers::Group& group,
              const Glib::ustring&      text,
              Widget&             content,
              SigC::Slot0<void>   callback=0,
              const Glib::ustring&      tooltip_text=0,
              const Glib::ustring&      tooltip_private_text=0);

    // icon only
    RadioElem(Gtk::RadioButton_Helpers::Group& group,
              Widget&             content,
              SigC::Slot0<void>   callback=0,
              const Glib::ustring&      tooltip_text=0,
              const Glib::ustring&      tooltip_private_text=0);

    // text only
    RadioElem(Gtk::RadioButton_Helpers::Group& group,
              const Glib::ustring&      text,
              SigC::Slot0<void>   callback=0,
              const Glib::ustring&      tooltip_text=0,
              const Glib::ustring&      tooltip_private_text=0);

The `group` argument is the only addition here; it works exactly like the `group` argument for normal radio buttons. See the Radio Buttons section for details.

The toolbar's contents are manipulated through an STL-like list, which you can obtain using the `tools()` method:

    ToolList& tools();

For example, to add a text-only button tool to the toolbar, we could write

    toolbar.tools().push_back(Gtk::Toolbar_Helpers::ButtonElem(
            "Crash",slot(&crash_cb),"Causes the program to dump core");

Since it's inconvenient to type `Gtk::Toolbar_Helpers` all the time, you might want to add a `using` declaration. However, don't add a global `using namespace Gtk::Toolbar_Helpers` declaration; place this only in some localised scope, to avoid clashes with other `Helpers` namespaces.

### Example

Figure 10.5. Toolbar

Source Code

File: examplewindow.h

    #ifndef GTKMM_EXAMPLEWINDOW_H
    #define GTKMM_EXAMPLEWINDOW_H

    #include <gtkmm.h>

    class ExampleWindow : public Gtk::Window
    {
    public:
      ExampleWindow();
      virtual ~ExampleWindow();

    protected:
      //Signal handlers:
      virtual void on_button_close();
      virtual void on_toolbar_item();

      //Child widgets:
      Gtk::VBox m_VBox;
      Gtk::HButtonBox m_ButtonBox;
      Gtk::Toolbar m_Toolbar;
      Gtk::Button m_Button_Close;
    };

    #endif //GTKMM_EXAMPLEWINDOW_H

File: examplewindow.cc

    #include "examplewindow.h"
    #include <iostream>

    ExampleWindow::ExampleWindow()
    : m_Button_Close("Close")
    {
      set_title("Gtk::Toolbar example");

      add(m_VBox);

      //Put a toolbar at the top, and a button underneath:
      m_VBox.pack_start(m_Toolbar, Gtk::PACK_SHRINK);
      m_ButtonBox.set_border_width(5);
      m_ButtonBox.set_layout(Gtk::BUTTONBOX_END);
      m_VBox.pack_end(m_ButtonBox);

      m_ButtonBox.pack_start(m_Button_Close, Gtk::PACK_SHRINK);

      m_Button_Close.signal_clicked().connect( SigC::slot(*this, &ExampleWindow::on_button_close) );

      //Add the toolbar items:
      {
        using namespace Gtk::Toolbar_Helpers;

        m_Toolbar.tools().push_back( ButtonElem("Click me", SigC::slot(*this, &ExampleWindow::on_toolbar_item), "Toolbar item") );

        m_Toolbar.tools().push_back( Space() );

        m_Toolbar.tools().push_back( StockElem(Gtk::Stock::SAVE, SigC::slot(*this, &ExampleWindow::on_toolbar_item)) );

        m_Toolbar.tools().push_back( ToggleElem("Toggle me", SigC::slot(*this, &ExampleWindow::on_toolbar_item), "toggle duh") );

        Gtk::RadioButton::Group group;
        m_Toolbar.tools().push_back( RadioElem(group, "Radio 1") );
        m_Toolbar.tools().push_back( RadioElem(group, "Radio 2") );
        m_Toolbar.tools().push_back( RadioElem(group, "Radio 3") );
      }

      show_all_children();
    }

    ExampleWindow::~ExampleWindow()
    {
    }

    void ExampleWindow::on_button_close()
    {
      hide();
    }

    void ExampleWindow::on_toolbar_item()
    {
      std::cout << "Toolbar item clicked." << std::endl;
    }

File: main.cc

    #include <gtkmm/main.h>
    #include "examplewindow.h"

    int main(int argc, char *argv[])
    {
      Gtk::Main kit(argc, argv);

      ExampleWindow window;
      Gtk::Main::run(window); //Shows the window and returns when it is closed.

      return 0;
    }

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