Re: How invoke a menu and menu items on key press

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

Am Mittwoch, den 04.01.2006, 23:09 -0800 schrieb Suresh Stephen:
>           I need to know how to add a shortcut key for a menu so that
> i can invoke that menu by pressing alt+<short cut key> and |||ly for
> menu items also so when the menu is pooped i just want to press a key
> and invoke a functionality also i want to know how u can underline
> that a letter in the menu item name which we set as the short cut key.
>  
>  For example:
>          a menu has a menu item exit i want 'x' to be its shortcut key
> and 'x' must be underlined 
>  Any help in this regard would be gr8

You can assign a mnemonic to an arbitrary menu item by using 
gtk_menu_item_new_with_mnemonic and passing "_Foo" instead of "Foo" as
item label. The letter after '_' will be used as mnemonic.
If you use GtkActions (recommended), the label field of your
GtkActionEntry should be set to "_Foo".

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Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>