Re: gtk-can-change-accels

[Olivier Sessink <lists olivier pk wau nl>]

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 10:48:35 +0100
Gyözö Both <gyboth bygfoot com> wrote:

> hello,
>
> i hope i'm not asking anything that's already been clarified before; the 
> archives of this list are huge and i couldn't find out whether this has been 
> asked before.
>
> i'm writing a gtk+2 application (the interface of which gets created by 
> glade), and i'd like to make use of this magnificent feature that allows 
> users to change the keyboard shortcuts by hovering on a menu entry with the 
> mouse and pressing the buttons.
>
> now i've tried to achieve this by creating a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file containing 
> 'gtk-can-change-accels = 1' and also by setting the appropriate value to 1 
> with 'gnome-conf'. it didn't work. then i tried to do a 
>
>       GtkSettings *settings = gtk_settings_get_default();
>       g_object_set(settings, "gtk-can-change-accels", TRUE, NULL);

I use the following code *after* I create the main menu:

{
        GtkSettings* gtksettings = gtk_settings_get_default();
        g_object_set(G_OBJECT(gtksettings), "gtk-can-change-accels", TRUE, NULL); 
        gtk_accel_map_load(shortcutfilename);
}

it works, but I don't use glade

regards,
        Olivier