Re: Passing keypress events

[Ken Steen <ksteen earthlink net>]

> Hi,
>
> Can someone tell me how to process a keypress event to make it look like a keyboard shortcut? I'm building 
> an app that has a zvtterm in it, and the zvtterm prevents keyboard shortcuts from working (because all 
> shortcuts could also be used by the application in the term). Anyway, I'd like the shortcuts to be handled 
> anyway, so want to catch the keypresses and then I want to send them to the menubar to process them. 
> Problem is, sending them directly to the menu bar doesn't work :-( Which is the widget that handles the 
> shortcuts? And can I just pass the keypress event to it with gtk_widget_event? Thanks for all hints in the 
> right direction.
>
> cheers,
 
 Catch the keypress event in your terminal widget.

 gtk_signal_connect(GTK_OBJECT(your_terminal), "key_press_event",
        GTK_SIGNAL_FUNC(keypress_cb), NULL);


void
keypress_cb(GtkWidget *widget, GdkEventKey *event)
{
        switch(event->keyval)
        {
                
                case 'c':
                        gtk_signal_emit_by_name(GTK_OBJECT(your_menu_item), "activate-item");
                        break;

/* if you want to check for control masks */
        
        if(event->state & GDK_CONTROL_MASK)
        {
                switch(event->keyval)
                {
                        case 'q':
                                quit_cb(NULL);
                                /* you can call the function directly instead of activating the
                                 * menu
                                 */
                                break;