Understanding accelerators.

[Oscar Lazzarino <oscar lazzarino i-m3d com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to understand the difference between accelerators and the
“key-press-event” signal.

Let's say I have a window with just one button "quit". I'd like to 
handle the <controlo>q key event to quit the application.

I now I can connect to the top window key-press-event, but - just to 
understand how things work - is there any way to do the same with 
accelerators? Or are accelerators exclusively intended to be used with 
menus?

I'm totally lost in the documentation bouncing between actions, 
accelerators, accerator groups, action groups, ui managers, etc, and I 
can't find a SIMPLE example.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks



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