[Glade-users] Using Actions + MenuItems + Accelerators + AccelLabels

[alexey.kurochkin at pathfinderlwd.com (Alexey Kurochkin)]

On Sat, 2009-10-03 at 20:43 -0500, Manuel Alejandro Cer?n Estrada wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have a bunch of actions and a MenuBar. Every MenuItem in the MenuBar
> has an associated action. I'm using "related action" and "use action
> appearance" to connect the actions with the menu. Now I want to assign
> some shortcut keys to each action. I haven't found a way to do that in
> Glade, so I'm doing it with code. I'm creating an ActionGroup and then
> adding each action to that group using add_action_with_accel. Then I
> create an AccelGroup and assign each action to it using
> action.set_accel_group and connect the accelerator using
> action.connect_accelerator. After that, I add the AccelGroup to the
> window using window.set_accel_group. This seems to work, when I press
> the keyboard shortcut the action is activated, however, the menu item
> does not show the AccelLabel indicating the accelerator for that item.
> How do I achieve this? Is there an easier way?

I'd like to see the answer too. Currently I create only the main menu
bar and empty sub menus with Glade, and all the menu items are created
and appended to the sub menus manually in the code. It results in
hundreds of lines of clutter which I'm looking forward to get rid of.

> I'm using PyGTK and glade 3.6.3
>
> Manuel.
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