A GtkWindow subclass that integrates with GtkApplication.

Notably, GtkApplicationWindow can handle an application menubar.

This class implements the ActionGroup and ActionMap interfaces, to let you add window-specific actions that will be exported by the associated Application, together with its application-wide actions. Window-specific actions are prefixed with the “win.” prefix and application-wide actions are prefixed with the “app.” prefix. Actions must be addressed with the prefixed name when referring to them from a menu model.

Note that widgets that are placed inside a GtkApplicationWindow can also activate these actions, if they implement the Actionable interface.

The settings Settings:gtkShellShowsAppMenu and Settings:gtkShellShowsMenubar tell GTK whether the desktop environment is showing the application menu and menubar models outside the application as part of the desktop shell. For instance, on OS X, both menus will be displayed remotely; on Windows neither will be.

If the desktop environment does not display the menubar, it can be shown in the GtkApplicationWindow by setting the ApplicationWindow:showMenubar property to true. If the desktop environment does not display the application menu, then it will automatically be included in the menubar or in the window’s client-side decorations.

See PopoverMenu for information about the XML language used by GtkBuilder for menu models.

See also: applicationSetMenubar.

A GtkApplicationWindow with a menubar

The code sample below shows how to set up a GtkApplicationWindow with a menu bar defined on the Application:

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GtkApplication *app = gtk_application_new ("org.gtk.test", 0);

GtkBuilder *builder = gtk_builder_new_from_string (
    "<interface>"
    "  <menu id='menubar'>"
    "    <submenu>"
    "      <attribute name='label' translatable='yes'>_Edit</attribute>"
    "      <item>"
    "        <attribute name='label' translatable='yes'>_Copy</attribute>"
    "        <attribute name='action'>win.copy</attribute>"
    "      </item>"
    "      <item>"
    "        <attribute name='label' translatable='yes'>_Paste</attribute>"
    "        <attribute name='action'>win.paste</attribute>"
    "      </item>"
    "    </submenu>"
    "  </menu>"
    "</interface>",
    -1);

GMenuModel *menubar = G_MENU_MODEL (gtk_builder_get_object (builder, "menubar"));
gtk_application_set_menubar (GTK_APPLICATION (app), menubar);
g_object_unref (builder);

// ...

GtkWidget *window = gtk_application_window_new (app);

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If this property is true, the window will display a menubar unless it is shown by the desktop shell.

See applicationSetMenubar.

If false, the window will not display a menubar, regardless of whether the desktop shell is showing it or not.