AboutDialog

An AboutDialog example using Gtk.ApplicationWindow and Menu

You need to be running Gtk3.4 or later for this to work

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/* A window in the application */
public class Window : Gtk.ApplicationWindow {

	/* The constructor */
	public Window (Application app) {
		Object (application: app, title: "AboutDialog Example");

		var about_action = new SimpleAction ("about", null);

		about_action.activate.connect (this.about_cb);
		this.add_action (about_action);
		this.show_all ();
	}

	/* This is the callback function connected to the 'activate' signal
	 * of the SimpleAction about_action.
	 */
	void about_cb (SimpleAction simple, Variant? parameter) {
		string[] authors = { "GNOME Documentation Team", null };
		string[] documenters = { "GNOME Documentation Team", null };

		Gtk.show_about_dialog (this,
                               "program-name", ("GtkApplication Example"),
                               "copyright", ("Copyright \xc2\xa9 2012 GNOME Documentation Team"),
                               "authors", authors,
                               "documenters", documenters,
                               "website", "http://developer.gnome.org",
                               "website-label", ("GNOME Developer Website"),
                               null);
	}
}

/* This is the Application */
public class Application : Gtk.Application {

	/* Here we override the activate signal of GLib.Application */
	protected override void activate () {
		new Window (this);
	}

	/* Here we override the startup signal of GLib.Application */
	protected override void startup () {

		base.startup ();

		var menu = new Menu ();
		menu.append ("About", "win.about");
		menu.append ("Quit", "app.quit");
		this.app_menu = menu;

		var quit_action = new SimpleAction ("quit", null);
		//quit_action.activate.connect (this.quit);
		this.add_action (quit_action);
	}

	/* The constructor */
	public Application () {
		Object (application_id: "org.example.application");
	}
}

/* main function creates Application and runs it */
int main (string[] args) {
	return new Application ().run (args);
}

In this sample we used the following: