GI.Atk.Interfaces.Action

Action should be implemented by instances of Object classes with which the user can interact directly, i.e. buttons, checkboxes, scrollbars, e.g. components which are not "passive" providers of UI information.

Exceptions: when the user interaction is already covered by another appropriate interface such as EditableText (insert/delete text, etc.) or Value (set value) then these actions should not be exposed by Action as well.

Though most UI interactions on components should be invocable via keyboard as well as mouse, there will generally be a close mapping between "mouse actions" that are possible on a component and the AtkActions. Where mouse and keyboard actions are redundant in effect, Action should expose only one action rather than exposing redundant actions if possible. By convention we have been using "mouse centric" terminology for Action names.

Exported types

newtype Action

Memory-managed wrapper type.

Constructors

Action (ManagedPtr Action)

Instances

WrappedPtr Action

Defined in GI.Atk.Interfaces.Action

Methods

wrappedPtrCalloc :: IO (Ptr Action)

wrappedPtrCopy :: Action -> IO Action

wrappedPtrFree :: Maybe (GDestroyNotify Action)

noAction :: Maybe Action

A convenience alias for Nothing :: Maybe Action.

class (ManagedPtrNewtype o, IsDescendantOf Action o) => IsAction o

Type class for types which implement Action.

Instances

(ManagedPtrNewtype o, IsDescendantOf Action o) => IsAction o

Defined in GI.Atk.Interfaces.Action

Methods

doAction

actionDoAction

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsAction a)

=> a

action: a Object instance that implements AtkActionIface

-> Int32

i: the action index corresponding to the action to be performed

-> m Bool

Returns: True if success, False otherwise

Perform the specified action on the object.

getDescription

actionGetDescription

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsAction a)

=> a

action: a Object instance that implements AtkActionIface

-> Int32

i: the action index corresponding to the action to be performed

-> m (Maybe Text)

Returns: a description string, or Nothing if action does not implement this interface.

Returns a description of the specified action of the object.

getKeybinding

actionGetKeybinding

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsAction a)

=> a

action: a Object instance that implements AtkActionIface

-> Int32

i: the action index corresponding to the action to be performed

-> m (Maybe Text)

Returns: the keybinding which can be used to activate this action, or Nothing if there is no keybinding for this action.

Gets the keybinding which can be used to activate this action, if one exists. The string returned should contain localized, human-readable, key sequences as they would appear when displayed on screen. It must be in the format "mnemonic;sequence;shortcut".

• The mnemonic key activates the object if it is presently enabled onscreen. This typically corresponds to the underlined letter within the widget. Example: "n" in a traditional "New..." menu item or the "a" in "Apply" for a button.
• The sequence is the full list of keys which invoke the action even if the relevant element is not currently shown on screen. For instance, for a menu item the sequence is the keybindings used to open the parent menus before invoking. The sequence string is colon-delimited. Example: "Alt+F:N" in a traditional "New..." menu item.
• The shortcut, if it exists, will invoke the same action without showing the component or its enclosing menus or dialogs. Example: "Ctrl+N" in a traditional "New..." menu item.

Example: For a traditional "New..." menu item, the expected return value would be: "N;Alt+F:N;Ctrl+N" for the English locale and "N;Alt+D:N;Strg+N" for the German locale. If, hypothetically, this menu item lacked a mnemonic, it would be represented by ";;Ctrl+N" and ";;Strg+N" respectively.

getLocalizedName

actionGetLocalizedName

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsAction a)

=> a

action: a Object instance that implements AtkActionIface

-> Int32

i: the action index corresponding to the action to be performed

-> m (Maybe Text)

Returns: a name string, or Nothing if action does not implement this interface.

Returns the localized name of the specified action of the object.

getNActions

actionGetNActions

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsAction a)

=> a

action: a Object instance that implements AtkActionIface

-> m Int32

Returns: a the number of actions, or 0 if action does not implement this interface.

Gets the number of accessible actions available on the object. If there are more than one, the first one is considered the "default" action of the object.

getName

actionGetName

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsAction a)

=> a

action: a Object instance that implements AtkActionIface

-> Int32

i: the action index corresponding to the action to be performed

-> m (Maybe Text)

Returns: a name string, or Nothing if action does not implement this interface.

Returns a non-localized string naming the specified action of the object. This name is generally not descriptive of the end result of the action, but instead names the 'interaction type' which the object supports. By convention, the above strings should be used to represent the actions which correspond to the common point-and-click interaction techniques of the same name: i.e. "click", "press", "release", "drag", "drop", "popup", etc. The "popup" action should be used to pop up a context menu for the object, if one exists.

For technical reasons, some toolkits cannot guarantee that the reported action is actually 'bound' to a nontrivial user event; i.e. the result of some actions via actionDoAction may be NIL.

setDescription

actionSetDescription

Arguments

:: (HasCallStack, MonadIO m, IsAction a)

=> a

action: a Object instance that implements AtkActionIface

-> Int32

i: the action index corresponding to the action to be performed

-> Text

desc: the description to be assigned to this action

-> m Bool

Returns: a gboolean representing if the description was successfully set;

Sets a description of the specified action of the object.