Re: discriminating accelerators

[Tim Evans <t evans aranz com>]

Marc Santhoff wrote:

> Hi!
>
> In my app I want to reach the following:
>
> - one toplevel window
> - a notebook with several pages for input
> - on the notebook pages some buttons with accelerators attached
> - some of the accelerator keys are the same and should behave
> differently
>
> May question:
>
> If page one has an accel key "F1" and page two either, how can i prevent
> page two form taking over the accelerator?
>
> It seems to be always the last created who wins. But actually the active
> page in the notebook should be steering the reaction on the keypress.

This looks a lot like this bug:
  http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122912

Gnome bugzilla is currently down, so you can't follow that link right 
now.  The bug was an error in starting accelerators where a widgets 
visibility was not checked.  I believe that it is fixed in gtk+-2.4.0.

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Tim Evans
Applied Research Associates NZ
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