Hi Zelphir, > > I have little experience using gtk builder, upstream developers > > convinced me to switch to (always) use templates.
> I wonder why that is though. I imagine (I don't know that for sure at > all, so some Dunning-Kruger chance here) that internally Gtk probably > uses the same machinery ... Not at all. A template is installed at (GObject) class initialization time, and as a user, since g-golf provides the adequate machinery, you won't need to call get-object anymore, providing 'you do the write thing', you'll get access to those widgets as instance slots: just look at the <adw-demo-window> class definition, and for example, search for all occurrences of the word stack, or split-view (or any child-id slot name ... search in the sxml ui file and in the (adw-demo-window) module, to see how this works ... > How could I create the GMenu from a UI file instead? There are quite a few examples in the adwaita-1-demo, one among others in the pages/buttons/buttons-ui.scm, %sample-menu ... David
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