Re: Accessing the accel_path of widgets

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2003-04-29 at 04:17, Emmanuel Briot wrote:
> In the context of an IDE we are developing, we would like to have a
> window that summarizes all key bindings, including the menu shortcuts.
> This window should allow the user to easily modify all of those.

You probably should look at the gnome-terminal sources; Havoc
managed to make this work with the current API (with much cursing
and tearing of hair, it must be said.)

> One of the difficulties we have is that there doesn't seem to be a
> function to get the accel_path that was set for a menu_item.
> _gtk_widget_get_accel_path is not a public function, and thus shouldn't
> be used by applications, even if on linux libtool authorizes this. It
> doesn't work on Solaris for instance.

(It's not available on Linux builds from the distributed sources either,
actually.)

> Is there any reason why this function isn't public ?

Basically, because we weren't sure that it made sense as a sensible
public API that we wanted to maintain in the future. We generally
go with a policy these days of not exporting anything we don't
have a good reason to export.

Other notes:

 - menu_item->accel_path will actually most likely be the same for
   your usage; the path is only ever determined on the fly only
   in odd cases.
 
 - The advent of action based menus in 2.4 will make this entirely
   different; since bindings are then attached to action objects, not to
   menu items.

Regards,
                                          Owen