[Glade-users] Accelerator keys

[Jonathan Lane]

On Jun 6, 2009, at 5:07 PM, Tristan Van Berkom wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Jonathan Lane<lanej at horizon.com>  
> wrote:
>> I've asked this on the list before, but it's hard to imagine that no
>> one else has noticed this, so I must be doing something wrong.
>>
>> I'm trying to add accelerators (such as CTRL-O, etc) to my MenuItems.
>> On the Common tab for the GtkImageMenuItem, I hook the accelerator I
>> want to the activate signal.
>>
>> Is this not the way I should be doing it?  Some of them work, but  
>> most
>> don't, and I can't figure why.
>>
>> I'm using glade 3.6.3 and saving my projects in Builder format.
>
> Gah, This is my mistake.
>
> This needs to be fixed in GTK+, GtkMenuItem doesnt use an accel-group
> property to connect to the window's accel-group, right now the  
> "accel-group"
> is only handled by GtkImageMenuItem but it should be handled by
> menu items in general.

This makes some sense, although I have 3 GtkImageMenuItem widgets that  
also don't respond to accelerators -- CTRL++, CTRL+-, and CTRL+0.

But... come to think of it.. do these only work via the numeric  
keypad?  I don't have a numeric keypad on any of the three keyboards I  
have here at the house.  I'll try at the office when I get in today.

-Jonathan