Re: Disable mnemonics in UIManager

[Bob Caryl <bob fis-cal com>]

Paul Davis wrote:

> > > > It's possible to disable the automatic mnemonic conversion in the
> > > > UIManager/Action? Otherwise it's not possible to put text with an
> > > > undersocre into the menu. I searched in the gtkmm and gtk documentation
> > > > but don't found anything related to the mnemonic conversion in
> > > > UIManager/Action.
> > > >        
> > > I've had the same problem with dynamically-generated menu names and
> > > TreeView column titles. I think that "_" can be escaped as "__" but I
> > > haven't tried it yet. It really should be documented, for instance here:
> > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.4/gtk/GtkAction.html
> > >      
> > Ah, didn't thought about quoting the underscore. Just tried out and 
> > quoting works fine. A note in the docu about it would be helpful for 
> > others in the future I'm sure.
> >    
>
> this is almost the most unhelpful-yet-helpful email thread i have ever
> read. two people using terms like "escaping" and "quoting" back and
> forth with no clear explanation of what they mean at all.
>
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Yeah,

I know what you mean Paul, *both* of my brain cells assigned to 
intuition just burned clean out.  :-)

Bob

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