Re: menu accelerators not working

[Philip Tricca <phil noggle biz>]

Paul Davis wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 19:33 -0400, Philip Tricca wrote:
> > Anyone willing to help diagnose a problem?
> >
> > I'm using the GtkUIManager to build my menus from GtkActionEntrys and
> > an
> > xml description.  Everything works great except for the accelerators.
> > I
> > can't seem to get them working at all, even the stock quit.
> >
> > As a test I wrote a very simple application with only one "Quit" item
> > and some test code to query the accelerator map for the accelerators
> > associated with each menu item.  The accelerator for the quit action
> > is in the map and is the expected string ("<control>q"). Pressing
> > control q however on my computer does not activate the action.
>
> the action must exist with a menu item as a proxy for the accelerator to
> take effect. does the item exist in a menu?

Yes, I believe the item does exist in a menu.  The actions are invoked 
when the menu item is selected manually with the mouse, and the actions 
have an accelerator path when queried using gtk_action_get_accel_path 
(action).

I've also written test code that queries the UIManager for the menu item 
widget:

gtk_ui_manager_get_widget (ui_mgr, "/menubar/FileMenu/Quit").

The associated action can be got using the gtk_widget_get_action call 
which returns an action object with the same action accel path as when 
querying the Action directly.

I'm even able to save the accel map to an rc file using 
gtk_accel_map_save.  The accel rc file looks like:

; menu-test GtkAccelMap rc-file        -*- scheme -*-
; this file is an automated accelerator map dump
;
; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/MenuActions/QuitAction" "<Control>q")

I can post my test code if you're willing to take a look.  I'm pretty 
stumped.

Thanks much for your help,
- Philip