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[gtk-list] Re: Accelerator text in menuitem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gert Scholten)
Wed Nov 4 16:05:26 1998
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 1998 20:49:10 +0100 (CET)
From: Gert Scholten <gs2@dds.nl>
To: Tim Janik <timj@gtk.org>
cc: Gtk List <gtk-list@redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <199811041917.UAA24555%timj@gtk.org>
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On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Tim Janik wrote:
: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.
What about version 1.1.3 ?
What's an non alpha accelerator?
Gert
:
:>
:> Thanks,
:>
:> -Manni
:> --
:
:---
:ciaoTJ
:
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