[pygtk] Popup menu and accelerators

[John Finlay]

Sebastian Pölsterl wrote:
> John Finlay wrote:
>   
>> Sebastian Pölsterl wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> I generate a popup menu with gtk.UIManager and want to add accellerators
>>> to the menu's items. If I press one of the key combinations the right
>>> function will be called, but the popup menu itsself doesn't show the
>>> combination next to the item. In the end it should look like
>>> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/images/file-menu.png
>>> But currently, Ctrl+N etc. on the right are missing.
>>>
>>> Here is my code:
>>>        [...]
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Try adding the accelerators when adding actions to the actiongroup, for
>> example:
>>
>>        self.actiongroup.add_actions([('View', None, _('View'),
>> '<Control>V',
>> None, self.on_treeview_browse_movies_row_activated),
>>                                       ('Edit', gtk.STOCK_EDIT, _('Edit'),
>> None, None,
>> self.on_toolbutton_edit_clicked),
>>                                       ('Delete', gtk.STOCK_DELETE,
>> _('Delete'), None, None,
>> self.on_toolbutton_delete_clicked)])
>>
>> You also have to get the uimanager accelgroup and add it to the toplevel
>> window before inserting the actiongroup in the uimanager. See the
>> uimanager.py example program in the tutorial:
>>
>> http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/sec-UIManager.html#sec-SimpleUIManagerExample
>>
>> John
>>     
> It doesn't work the way either. Key combination work, but they won't get
> displayed.
> I tried the same thing with a menubar instead of a popup and their it works.
>
>   
I didn't read your email closely enough. It seems that accelerators are 
explicitly not displayed in popup menus by uimanager.

John