DhAssistantView: Devhelp Reference Manual

DhAssistantView

DhAssistantView — A small “assistant” widget for displaying just one hit

Functions

GtkWidget *	dh_assistant_view_new ()
gboolean	dh_assistant_view_set_link ()
gboolean	dh_assistant_view_search ()

Signals

void

open-uri

Types and Values

struct

DhAssistantView

Object Hierarchy

    GObject
    ╰── GInitiallyUnowned
        ╰── GtkWidget
            ╰── GtkContainer
                ╰── WebKitWebViewBase
                    ╰── WebKitWebView
                        ╰── DhAssistantView

Implemented Interfaces

DhAssistantView implements AtkImplementorIface and GtkBuildable.

Includes

#include <devhelp/devhelp.h>

Description

DhAssistantView is a subclass of WebKitWebView for displaying the documentation of just one symbol.

A possible use-case: in a text editor, pressing a keyboard shortcut could display this widget for the symbol under the cursor.

With the Devhelp application, an assistant can easily be launched with the command line option --search-assistant.

Functions

dh_assistant_view_new ()

GtkWidget *
dh_assistant_view_new (void);

Returns

a new DhAssistantView widget.

[transfer floating]

dh_assistant_view_set_link ()

gboolean
dh_assistant_view_set_link (DhAssistantView *view,
                            DhLink *link);

Open link in the assistant view, if NULL the view will be blanked.

Parameters

view	a DhAssistantView.
link	a DhLink to set or `NULL`.	[nullable]

Returns

TRUE if the requested link is open, FALSE otherwise.

dh_assistant_view_search ()

gboolean
dh_assistant_view_search (DhAssistantView *view,
                          const gchar *str);

Search for str in the current assistant view.

Parameters

view	a DhAssistantView.
str	the search query.

Returns

TRUE if str was found, FALSE otherwise.

Types and Values

struct DhAssistantView

struct DhAssistantView;

Signal Details

The `“open-uri”` signal

void
user_function (DhAssistantView *view,
               gchar           *uri,
               gpointer         user_data)

Parameters

view	the view on which the signal is emitted
uri	the uri to open
user_data	user data set when the signal handler was connected.