Re: Accelerator

[Stefan Kost <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

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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