Re: Alt-key mnemonics in menus

[Allin Cottrell <cottrell wfu edu>]

On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote:

> I've noticed that in my GTK app Alt-key mnemonics work like this: pressing 
> Alt-F, for example, opens the _File menu, but once you're in the menu 
> pressing Alt-N does not activate _New, although pressing plain N does so.
>
> In various other GTK apps both Alt-N and plain N work in this sort of 
> context.
>
> Any idea on what might account for the difference? I'm wondering if I've 
> inadvertantly done something that disables Alt-key within menus but I don't 
> know what that could be.

I should probably add: My menus are built in 'actions' mode, 
using an array of GtkActionEntry, a GtkUIManager and an XML UI 
definition.

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Allin Cottrell
Department of Economics
Wake Forest University, NC