Re: dynamic accelerators

[jcupitt gmail com]

2008/7/29 Wesley Smith <wesley hoke gmail com>:
> I'm trying to get runtime-settable accelerators to work with my app.

Have you added the accel group to the window? Also, I'd use UI manager
to make the abse set of menus, then hang extra run-time menus off that
if necessary.

The boilerplate is something like:

        action_group = gtk_action_group_new( log_class->action_name );
        gtk_action_group_set_translation_domain( action_group,
                GETTEXT_PACKAGE );
        gtk_action_group_add_actions( action_group,
                log_class->actions, log_class->n_actions,
                GTK_WINDOW( log ) );
        gtk_action_group_add_toggle_actions( action_group,
                log_class->toggle_actions, log_class->n_toggle_actions,
                GTK_WINDOW( log ) );

        ui_manager = gtk_ui_manager_new();
        gtk_ui_manager_insert_action_group( ui_manager, action_group, 0 );

        accel_group = gtk_ui_manager_get_accel_group( ui_manager );
        gtk_window_add_accel_group( GTK_WINDOW( log ), accel_group );

        if( !gtk_ui_manager_add_ui_from_string( ui_manager,
                log_class->ui_description, -1, &error ) ) {
                g_message( "building menus failed: %s", error->message );
                g_error_free( error );
                exit( EXIT_FAILURE );
        }

Here's the program edit window from my app:

http://vips.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/vips/nip2/trunk/src/program.c?view=markup

search for "accel" to find the menus being built.

John