Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm 2.4 accelerator stuff (2.2 for that matter)

["Adrian Bentley" <adruab hotmail com>]

Ok, so the UI building stuff looks sweet.  However, if I'm not mistaken the 
only way to change a menu item's accelerator key at run time is using the 
AccelPath stuff (perhaps I didn't emphasize this enough).  I looked in the 
GTK+ docs, and it has some description of actions having a certain path, 
yada yada.

So I guess my questions are these:  Do the UI generation systems 
automatically create items with accelerator display?  And is the accelerator 
xml object only for setting up static accelerators?

Actions certainly makes it easier to set up a hotkey system, which is, in 
the end, what I'm trying to accomplish.

Also, I figure I'd ask, how exactly do accelerator groups and accelerator 
paths interact?  That may have been part of my problem last time, since I 
was trying to use AccelPaths exclusively.

Thanks,
Adruab > Adrian Bentley

> From: Matthew Walton <matthew alledora co uk>
> To: Adrian Bentley <adruab hotmail com>
> CC: gtkmm-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: [gtkmm] gtkmm 2.4 accelerator stuff (2.2 for that matter)
> Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:59:00 +0100
>
> Adrian Bentley wrote:
>
> > I'm interested in using the new action group stuff in gtkmm 2.4, but I was 
> > wondering what the interface was for modifying keyboard accelerators with 
> > action based stuff.  I've had a significant amount of trouble getting 
> > keyboard accelerator paths to work in the 2.2 (documentation is where?), 
> > and was wondering if there was any set up to deal with keyboard 
> > accelerators directly with actions (since that would be the obvious 
> > extension).
> >  Any help is appreciated, even with the AccelPath stuff in 2.2.  However 
> > information about how 2.4 works will probably work just fine, since I will 
> > shortly be moving over to that.
> >  Thanks,
> > Adruab > Adrian Bentley
>
> Actions can be created with keyboard shortcuts associated with them, these 
> automatically trigger the actions when they're used. Of course, when an 
> Action is insensitive, the shortcuts are automagically disabled, as well as 
> all associated menu items/toolbar buttons.
>
> Working with them is pretty simple. I suggest you get hold of the 2.4.0 
> test tarballs and have a look in the examples directory at the 
> menus_and_toolbars example, which uses UIManager and actions, which is an 
> undeniably far better way to build interfaces than hand-coding the menus 
> and toolbars.
>
> Actually, it looks a lot like the first steps towards integrating libglade 
> into GTK+ - which wouldn't be a bad thing at all really.

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