Re: How to Add a Keyboard Accelarator to a Button

[Liviu BURCUSEL <liviu mediaimage ro>]

Shlomi Fish wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have a button in one of my dialogs and I want it to have a keyboard
> accelarator. I.e: I want one of its letters to be underlined, and if the
> user presses Alt+[Letter] or whatever is the GNOME convention, it will be
> pressed automagically.

my $button = Gtk::Button->new('_Whatever');

... and this makes W as shortcut ...

Liviu

> I have already did that to the menus, but I don't have Gtk::ItemFactory
> for buttons. I know it is possible because a Glade dialog I generated (in
> C) uses it. I cannot convert the dialog to perl because Perl-Glade is
> broken, and fails on very simple dialogs
>
> Furthermore, I could not find an accelarated button in the Perl/Gtk+
> examples. Keyboard integration is very important for usability and
> accessibility so we should at least have some working code.
>
> Regards,
>
>         Shlomi Fish