Re: Signal on mouse over menu item?

[Daniel Pekelharing <legendstar gmail com>]

On Sat, 2005-11-26 at 13:04 +0000, John Cupitt wrote:
> I'm not sure, but perhaps GTK's programmable accelerator system is
> taking the keypress events before you see them?
>
> I'd wonder about the wisdom of doing this (though of course I don't
> know what or why you need keypresses). It sounds like you might be
> wandering away from the expected behaviour for a GTK application and
> you're likely to confuse users more than help them. Is there some way
> you can get the effect you want and stay within the HIG?
>
> John

I'm trying to implement a system for making the accelerators adjustable
in a easy way. I'm working on a 3D Animation app, and I've picked up
(from forums and such) that 3D designers are rather particular about
having flexibility on keyboard shortcuts...

I actually posted a question about it some days ago:

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 18:41 +0200, Daniel Pekelharing wrote: 
> Hi all,
>
> I'm wondering, how easy would it be to set up my program to have easily
> adjustable accelerator key mappings?
>
> It would be nice to have a setup similar to a lot of programs - where
> the user just hovers the mouse over the menu item, presses insert and
> then the desired shortcut key..
>
> Has anyone accomplished this sort of thing, or have any links to a
> tutorial ?
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Daniel Pekelharing
<legendstar gmail com>