Re: Really global accelerators ?

[Pedro Caria <pmiguel maquina com>]

On Sun, 2001-11-18 at 21:55, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> > I can't seem to find a way to have an accelerator that works all the
> > time...
> > My problem: I want to use ctrl-w to activate something in my program,
> > but if the focus is in a GtkEntry, ctrl-w is bound to kill word... is
> > there any way around this ?

> A key event is first sent to the toplevel window: you should be able to
> handle it there, if that doesn't work, your code doesn't do the right
> things.

Any ideias of what I could be doing wrong ?
I'm doing something like this...


my $win_browser = new Gtk::Window();
$self->{_mainwindow} = $win_browser;
$self->{_accelgroup} = new Gtk::AccelGroup;
$win_browser->add_accel_group($self->{_accelgroup});
(...)
$self->{'_accelgroup'}->add(ord('s'),'mod1-mask',0,$self->{'sair'},'clicked');

now this particular key combination always works (alt-s) but if I try
ctrl-w it wont work if I'm in a GTK::Entry...

> Anyway, there is also another way to get keyboard events before Gtk
> sends them to the widgets:
>
>       Gtk->key_snooper_install (\&handler);
>
> with:
> sub handler {
>       my ($widget, $gdkevent, @args) = @_;
>       #return 1; # if we want to handle the key event ourselves
>       return 0;
> }

Yes, this could work as a way to intercept a key that I don't want going
to a widget, but is there a way to redirect the event to the proper
accelerator ?
ex:
sub handler {
   my ($widget, $gdkevent, @args) = @_;
   (...)
   $accel_object->some_func($gdkevent);
   return 1;
}  

Thank You

Pedro Caria
(Maquina de Estados)