add back semantically-different version of previously removed ::get_action() function

git-svn-id: svn://localhost/ardour2/branches/3.0@11995 d708f5d6-7413-0410-9779-e7cbd77b26cf

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/libs/gtkmm2ext/actions.cc b/libs/gtkmm2ext/actions.cc
index 1380d49ae8..774991038e 100644
--- a/libs/gtkmm2ext/actions.cc
+++ b/libs/gtkmm2ext/actions.cc
@@ -244,6 +244,20 @@ ActionManager::get_widget (const char * name)
 }
 
 RefPtr<Action>
+ActionManager::get_action (const char* path)
+{
+	char copy[strlen(path)+1];
+	strcpy (copy, path);
+	char *slash = strchr (copy, '/');
+	if (!slash) {
+		return RefPtr<Action> ();
+	}
+	*slash = '\0';
+	return get_action (copy, ++slash);
+	
+}
+
+RefPtr<Action>
 ActionManager::get_action (const char* group_name, const char* action_name)
 {
 	/* the C++ API for functions used here appears to be broken in
diff --git a/libs/gtkmm2ext/gtkmm2ext/actions.h b/libs/gtkmm2ext/gtkmm2ext/actions.h
index 0f382898c7..0c53e9c10d 100644
--- a/libs/gtkmm2ext/gtkmm2ext/actions.h
+++ b/libs/gtkmm2ext/gtkmm2ext/actions.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ 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 set_toggle_action (const char* group, const char* name, bool);