Re: can_activate_acce

[justin+gnome dicatek com]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, muppet wrote:

>   $button->signal_connect (can_activate_accel => sub {
>         # inhibit the accel by returning TRUE.
>         # the signal uses the same boolean-handled-accumulator
>         # as events; so returning TRUE from the handler should
>         # cause $button->can_activate_accel(...) to return FALSE.
>         #
>         # don't allow the accelerator to activate if we're typing
>         # in the entry.
>         return ($window->get_focus == $entry);
>   });
>
> but no matter how i do that, even just using "sub {return TRUE}",
> $button->can_activate_accel($id) returns TRUE.  Even tried with a small C
> program, and am confused by the results.

I was under the impression that one should return FALSE to inhibit the
accelerator. (Although, there are several contradictory versions of the
documentation.) I tried both ways in Perl and neither worked, but it might
be worth trying FALSE in C?


Justin