Re: Toolbar button accelerators

[muppet <scott asofyet org>]

On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:15 PM, jjd wrote:

> I have a window with a toolbar of several buttons. I want to make the
> keyboard 'F1','F2','F3' to have the same effect as clicking these
> buttons. How do I do this? I see in the examples how to connect the
> accelerators to subs in the program, but is there a way to connect them
> directly to the buttons? Or do I need to write a sub and within that
> call the $button->clicked()

this is the purpose of the action-based toolbars and menus in gtk+ 2.4. 
 you create an action object, hook the desired behavior to the action, 
and the connect the toolbars, menus, and accelerators to the actions.

if you can't use gtk+ 2.4, you can still employ similar techniques "by 
hand", but the drawback is that you have to do it by hand.  basically, 
to make the keys have the same effect as clicking the buttons, you have 
the button callbacks and accelerator callbacks all call the same 
functions.


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