[Glade-users] Accelerators for Pulldown menus

[damon karuna uklinux net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 15:11, Joel Wheeler wrote:
> Hello-
>
> I am having trouble using accelerator keys to activate pulldown menus in
> Glade built GUI's. Is there a solution for this? I dug through the email
> list archives, and saw the following response for one person using glade
> 0.5.9:
>
> "There is a known problem when using menubars in normal GtkWindow widgets
> in a Gnome project."
>
> Has this been fixed since 0.5.9? I am using 0.6.4, and still experiencing
> problems.
> Is there any type of workaround for this?
> Is this a problem with the code that Glade outputs, or a shortcoming of the
> libraries that get used by the resulting GUI application that is built
> (gnome, or maybe gtk?)

It was fixed in the latest 2.0.2 and 2.6.5 release.
Glade 0.6.4 is based on the very old GTK+ 1.x versions and isn't really
supported now.

You could fix it yourself if you really need it.
In glade/gbwidgets/gbmenubar.c in gb_menu_bar_write_source(),
I think you just need to change this:

 source_add (data,
             "  gnome_app_fill_menu (GTK_MENU_SHELL (%s), %s_uiinfo,\n"
             "                       NULL, FALSE, 0);\n",
             data->wname, data->real_wname);


to this:

 data->need_accel_group = TRUE;
 source_add (data,
             "  gnome_app_fill_menu (GTK_MENU_SHELL (%s), %s_uiinfo,\n"
             "                       accel_group, FALSE, 0);\n",
             data->wname, data->real_wname);

Damon