Re: How to Add a Keyboard Accelarator to a Button

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif vipe technion ac il>]

On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Liviu BURCUSEL wrote:

> 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 ...

I tried it. It does not work. All I get is a button that displays the
string "_Whatever", with an underscore at the beginning.

Regards,

        Shlomi Fish
 
> 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
>
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