Re: Understanding accelerators.

[Michael Cronenworth <mike cchtml com>]

On 10/07/2014 04:45 AM, Oscar Lazzarino wrote:
> 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.

There are menu accelerators and there are mnemonic accelerators. What you need 
to use for a "quit" button is a mnemonic accelerator. You do not attach to any 
key-press signal. Attach to the button clicked signal. GTK provides the 
functionality to capture the keyboard press and route it to the button click.

You're complicating this a little. It's not that complicated. :)