provide ActionManager::do_action() as a way to trigger any action item as if the user has asked for it via some UI proxy

git-svn-id: svn://localhost/ardour2/branches/3.0@11332 d708f5d6-7413-0410-9779-e7cbd77b26cf

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libs/gtkmm2ext/actions.cc b/libs/gtkmm2ext/actions.cc
index 7237497d86..c9aae4568b 100644
--- a/libs/gtkmm2ext/actions.cc
+++ b/libs/gtkmm2ext/actions.cc
@@ -343,3 +343,13 @@ ActionManager::get_key_representation (const string& accel_path, AccelKey& key)
 	
 	return unbound_string;
 }
+
+void
+ActionManager::do_action (const char* group, const char*action)
+{
+	Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Action> act = ActionManager::get_action (group, action);
+	if (act) {
+		act->activate ();
+	}
+}
+
diff --git a/libs/gtkmm2ext/gtkmm2ext/actions.h b/libs/gtkmm2ext/gtkmm2ext/actions.h
index 189bf328c4..d9082ffbff 100644
--- a/libs/gtkmm2ext/gtkmm2ext/actions.h
+++ b/libs/gtkmm2ext/gtkmm2ext/actions.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ namespace ActionManager {
 	extern Gtk::Widget* get_widget (const char * name);
 	extern Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Action> get_action (const char* group, const char* name);
 	extern Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::Action> get_action (const char* path);
+	extern void do_action (const char* group, const char* name);
 
 	extern void add_action_group (Glib::RefPtr<Gtk::ActionGroup>);