Signals question

[Derrick J Houy <djhouy paw za org>]

In a simple text editor, I have a "docked" find/replace bar, as apposed 
to the common dialog version.

The problem I had is that when pressing Ctrl-v inside either the find or 
the replace entry box, the text is pasted into the editing window instead.

If I create my Edit->Paste menu item without an accelerator, the related 
function is never called, and all works well--it seems that both the 
find entry box, and the editor window handle the Ctrl-v implicitly. But, 
if I do that, selecting the menu item obviously does nothing, and the 
non-existent accelerator is not displayed for users.

In the end, I overcame the problem by connecting/disconnecting the 
accelerator for the Edit->Paste menu item when the editor window 
receives/loses focus. This works, but feels a bit 
"bubblegum-and-sticky-tape'ish", and I can't help wondering if there is 
perhaps a better, more robust, way of doing this. My main concern with 
my current approach is that gtk_action_disconnect_accelerator only 
disconnects the accelerator if the accel_count has reached 0--and I 
cannot find a way to tell what accel_count is for a given GtkAction.