[Glade-users] Mnemonic activation for widgets with separate labels

[damon at karuna.uklinux.net (Damon Chaplin)]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 10:41 -0500, Catherine Laws wrote:
> I'm trying to use Glade to create an app that has Gtk spin buttons, combo
> boxes, and entry fields with separate labels packed in vertical or
> horizontal boxes. I'm using the underline button and putting an underline
> before the first charater in the label text to create a mnemonic activation
> for the related spin button, combo box, or entry field, and using the Label
> For and Labelled By to associate the labels and controls. But when I run
> the app, I get a Gtk-WARNING that GtkVBox isn't suitable for mnemonic
> activation. Is there something else I need to do to associate the labels
> and controls, or to set up mnemonic activation for these controls? The
> label is in a different VBox cell than the combo box, so does that matter?
> Mnemonic activation for radio and push buttons works fine for me.

You need to set the "Focus Target" property of the label. Choose the
widget you want to activate in the popup.

Damon