Re: [gnome-love]Fixing dialog boxes

[ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>]

On Fri, 20 Apr 2001, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

>       - Many dialog boxes lack underlined shortcuts in labels for
>           text entries and similar widgets.  For example, you should
>           have
>
>               _Name [________________]
>
>         so that you can hit Alt-N to go to that entry.  Push-buttons
>         often lack such underlined shortcuts as well.

So how does one fix this? My initial guess was AccelLabel:
    Gtk::AccelLabel *label_widget = new Gtk::AccelLabel ("");

    label_widget->parse_uline ("_Foo");
    label_widget->set_alignment (1, 0.5);
    label_widget->set_accel_widget (control);

So I tought pressing M-f would focus the control. But this is not
happening.

For libglade interfaces, setting an underline accelerator for a label sort
of works: sometimes (mostly for entries) it guesses the right widget to
focus, but sometimes nothing happens.

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