Re: Signal on mouse over menu item?

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

On 11/26/05, Daniel Pekelharing <legendstar gmail com> wrote:
> Only it doesn't seem to work for me?
> I even tried gtk_rc_parse_string("gtk-can-change-accels = 1");
>
> Perhaps it's because I have a manually constructed menu?
> Do you know if menu withinit only works with UI manager?

Hi again,

It works with hand-made menus too. You need to have an accel group and
path for each item.

I make one accel group per top-level window, then attach each item in
that window which might have an accelerator to that group. The path
names each item (eg. "<main_window>/File/Open") soGTK can save and
restore accelerators correctly.

Here's my app's code for menu items:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/vips/nip2-7.11/src/toolview.c?rev=1.1.1.1&view=markup

and for menus:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/vips/nip2-7.11/src/toolkitview.c?rev=1.1.1.1&view=markup

There's more stuff in there for building menu trees which hang off UI
manager trees, don't know if that's useful for you.

John