An example of traditional menus on headebars for GTK4/Adwaita apps?

[alex285]

Hello, anyone knows if there is an example somewhere that puts traditional (non inline) menus on headerbars in a GTK4/Adwaita app, similar to VCode? Also if anyone could provide such template please

[LARathbone]

Check out the “application” demo in the gtk source tree.

[alex285]

nice, but there isn’t such with menus on headerbar, hm?

[yvs2014]

Having HeaderBar of menu items with disabled arrows in TitleBar, those text menus will be there.
Something like

  GtkWidget *bar = gtk_header_bar_new();
  g_return_val_if_fail(GTK_IS_HEADER_BAR(bar), false);
  gtk_window_set_titlebar(GTK_WINDOW(window), bar);
  ...
  GtkWidget *button = gtk_menu_button_new();
  g_return_val_if_fail(GTK_IS_MENU_BUTTON(button), NULL);
  gtk_menu_button_set_label(GTK_MENU_BUTTON(button), "Actions");
  gtk_menu_button_set_direction(GTK_MENU_BUTTON(button), GTK_ARROW_NONE);
  ...
  gtk_header_bar_pack_start(GTK_HEADER_BAR(bar), button);
  GtkWidget *popover = gtk_popover_menu_new_from_model(G_MENU_MODEL(menu));
  g_return_val_if_fail(GTK_IS_POPOVER_MENU(popover), NULL);
  gtk_menu_button_set_popover(GTK_MENU_BUTTON(button), popover);
  gtk_popover_set_has_arrow(GTK_POPOVER(popover), false);
  ...

text menu item without arrows looks like this one

[LARathbone]

Why not try packing GtkPopoverMenuBar into {Adw,Gtk}HeaderBar