[Geany-Devel] How can a plugin invoke menu items/geany actions?

[Lars Paulsen]

@Lex, @Matthew: thanks for the quick response.


On 20.12.2017 23:46, Matthew Brush wrote:
> On 2017-12-20 01:37 PM, Lars Paulsen wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> I would like to start actions in geany from inside a geany plugin?
>>
>> E.g. start the Color Chooser as if it was selected from the geany 
>> tools menu.
>> I tried to call the callback function directly but that gives an 
>> linker error for geany plugins (just logical).
>>
>> Can I fire/send an event/message to make it being started? How do I 
>> do that?
>>
>
> If you happen to find one that's not available as a keybinding 
> command, you can also use `ui_lookup_widget()` to get a handle on the 
> menu item and then activate it through code (ie. 
> `gtk_actionable_activate()` or something). This is kind of brittle, 
> but it does work.
>
> Regards,
> Matthew Brush
>
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