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[gtk-list] Re: Accelerator text in menuitem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Janik)
Wed Nov 4 15:39:40 1998
From: Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:17:34 +0100 (CET)
To: Gtk List <gtk-list@redhat.com>
cc: Conrad Steenberg <conrad@srl.caltech.edu>, Gert Scholten <gs2@dds.nl>
In-Reply-To: <364083C2.85209DFC@sig.bsh.com>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Manni Wood wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I've been trying to find a way to get gtk+ 1.0.6 to show a non-alpha
> accelerator in a menuitem.
>
> I'm using the Del key as a shortcut to nuke items from a top-level
> clist, so I'd like the corresponding menuitem to say:
>
> Delete item Del
>
> In the same way that I have
>
> New item Ctrl+N
>
> I originally thought I may be able to realloc menuitem->accelerator_key,
> but accelerator_key is just a gchar, not a gchar* as I'd originally
> hoped.
>
> I also tried gtk_menu_item_new_with_label("Delete item Del"),
> but found that the resulting menuitems aligned like so:
>
> New item Ctrl+N
> Delete item Del
> Edit item Ctrl+E
>
> The "Del" is not right justified as the "real" accelerators are.
>
> Does anyone know how I can directly manipulate the accelerator text of a
> menuitem under gtk+ 1.0.6?
you can't. the 1.0.x line simply doesn't support non-apha accelerators.
the development branch uses a slightly different system for accelerator
handling and supports all available keys.
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Manni
> --
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ciaoTJ
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