Re: Accelerators are all lower case letters!

[James Henstridge <james daa com au>]

Try setting the GDK_SHIFT_MASK modifier for the upper case 'E'
accelerator.  This is probably what you wanted.

James.

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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Erik Andersen wrote:

> It seems that when adding the following accelerators to a gnome app:
> 
> 
>            {
>                GNOME_APP_UI_ITEM, N_("Eat"),
>                N_("eat something"),
>                ghack_accelerator_selected,
>                GINT_TO_POINTER('e'), NULL, GNOME_APP_PIXMAP_NONE, NULL, 'e',0
>            },
>            {
>                GNOME_APP_UI_ITEM, N_("Engrave"), 
>                N_("write a message in the dust on the floor"),
>                ghack_accelerator_selected, 
>                GINT_TO_POINTER('E'), NULL, GNOME_APP_PIXMAP_NONE, NULL, 'E',0
>            },
> 
> The resulting menu only includes the 'E' and the 'e' accelerator doesn't 
> show up at all.  GnomeHack need to be able to show both.
> 
> Further inspection shows that gtkaccelgroup.c in gtk seems to be doing
> a gdk_keyval_to_lower.  Ugh!  If I wanted the key to be lower, I surely would
> have entered a lower case letter.  Is there a _good_ reason for this
> behavior?  I would like to have this at least optional, so apps like GnomeHack 
> (which uses upper, lower, METAed, and CTLed keys) can have these defined
> as accelerators.  This seems like a well intentioned, but broken feature.
> There currently seems to be no way to turn off the lower-casing.
> 
> Any thoughts? 
>  
>  -Erik
> 
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