Re: Accelerator

[dhk <dhkuhl optonline net>]

Stefan Kost wrote:
> dhk schrieb:
> > Are accelerators only for menu items?  I've seen a lot of examples with
> > accelerators and the all seem to connect to a menu item.  I've been
> > having a difficult time getting accelerators to work even with the
> > examples.  I think I'm missing something.
> >
> > One thing I would like is to just have an accelerator execute a function
> > or a callback.  Maybe if I could just print "Hello World" to the
> > terminal when pressing Alt-F4 would help prove the concept.
>
> I am struggling with the same issue and resorted to a terrible hack. I've
> defined a popupmenu which I never show. It contains menu items with the
> accelerators. Voila, global accelerators for the app :)
>
> Stefan
>
> > Can someone help?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > dhk
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The following is from the Glade mailing list yesterday, the same day as 
your email.  It sounds like there could be a bug, but I'm not sure.  I 
am still having a difficulty getting an accelerator to work:  don'tknow 
what's wrong.

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Lane<lanej horizon com> wrote:
> > I've asked this on the list before, but it's hard to imagine that no
> > one else has noticed this, so I must be doing something wrong.
> >
> > I'm trying to add accelerators (such as CTRL-O, etc) to my MenuItems.
> > On the Common tab for the GtkImageMenuItem, I hook the accelerator I
> > want to the activate signal.
> >
> > Is this not the way I should be doing it?  Some of them work, but most
> > don't, and I can't figure why.
> >
> > I'm using glade 3.6.3 and saving my projects in Builder format.

Gah, This is my mistake.

This needs to be fixed in GTK+, GtkMenuItem doesnt use an accel-group
property to connect to the window's accel-group, right now the "accel-group"
is only handled by GtkImageMenuItem but it should be handled by
menu items in general.

Im sure there is a bug open for this but I cant seem to find it
right now.

Sorry for this inconvenience.

Cheers,
           -Tristan
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