Re: Understanding accelerators.

[Gergely Polonkai <gergely polonkai eu>]

Mnemonics are discouraged by the HIG, and AFAIK they are not displayed by
recent GTK versions.

> From the user's perspective, I think there is no difference. However, if
you are using GApplication/GtkApplication, it is easier to register accels,
and you can even make them easily customizable for the users. I'm yet to
find a good example on the Interwebs, but if you take a look at GNOME 3.14
apps, you will find some for sure.

Best,
Gergely
On 7 Oct 2014 16:12, "Michael Cronenworth" <mike cchtml com> wrote:

> 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. :)
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