Re: accelerators for popup menu

[Melvin Hadasht <melvin hadasht free fr>]

Hi,

on Sat, 22 Dec 2001 14:26:44 +0100,
Melvin Hadasht <melvin hadasht free fr> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to add accelerators to a popup menu (aka context menu, aka
> right-click menu) using a gtk_accel_group. I add an accelerator to the
> menuitem and attach the accel group to the menu widget: e.g:
>
> {
> ...
> accel = gtk_accel_group_new();
> menu = gtk_menu_new(); 
> item = gtk_menu_item_new_with_label("Item1");
> gtk_widget_show(item);
> gtk_menu_append(GTK_MENU(menu), item);
> gtk_signal_connect(GTK_OBJECT(item), "activate", 
>                    GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(callback), NULL);
> gtk_accel_group_add(accel, 's', 0, GTK_ACCEL_LOCKED | GTK_ACCEL_VISIBLE,
>                      GTK_OBJECT(item), "activate");
> gtk_accel_group_attach(accel, GTK_OBJECT(menu));
> ...
> }
>
> The accelerator work: I open the context menu and when I type 's', the
> callback function is called but then the menu remains open and I like it
> to close after activation. I don't know of any application that uses
> keyboard shortcuts in context menus, so I have no idea how to do it.
>
> Any idea ? Thanks.

Sorry to answer to my question, but it seems that adding a
gtk_menu_shell_deactivate(GTK_MENU_SHELL(widget->parent)) at the end of
the callback function does the job. But it seems to be a hack... isn't
there a better way?

Thanks


Cheers

-- 
Melvin Hadasht