Re: Storing accelerators in a rc file

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

mk daveg com writes:
> A while back there was an inspiring discussion on this list about the
> use(fulness) of user-changeable menu accelerators. What i did not understand
> from this exchange (or from the documentation at gtk.org) is how one stores
> (and retrieves ) these accelerators in a .rc file ? 

I think the relevant function is gtk_item_factory_dump_rc(), but don't
ask me how it all works. ;-) The item factory stuff has never had any
docs.

> And a related question - surely there must be some way to add 
> language-specific accelerators without hardcoding them for a set of known 
> locales ? 
> Translating the labels themselves is easy with the gettext system, but one
> soon ends up with accelerator characters that were intuitive in the original
> language but do not even appear in the text of the translated label.

Remember that accelerators are not the thing underlined in the label.

If you derive your label shortcuts (called "mnemonics" in GTK 2) from 
the label text by parsing a string such as "_Save" with
gtk_label_parse_uline(), then translators can simply place the _ in
their translation.

Havoc