Peter Clifton wrote: > On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 00:42 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote: > >>quoting from: >> >> > > http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Keyboard-Accelerators.html#gtk-accelerator-parse > >> >>"Parses a string representing an accelerator. The format looks like >>"<Control>a" or "<Shift><Alt>F1" or "<Release>z" (the last one is for >>key release). The parser is fairly liberal and allows lower or upper >>case, and also abbreviations such as "<Ctl>" and "<Ctrl>". >> >>If the parse fails, accelerator_key and accelerator_mods will be set > > to > >>0 (zero). >> >>accelerator : string representing an accelerator >>accelerator_key : return location for accelerator keyval >>accelerator_mods : return location for accelerator modifier mask >>" >> >>Ok, so I give up. Where exactly is this format documented? For >>example, I can't seem to get "F1", "F2", etc to work and I'm not sure >>what to enter for the tab, space, page up/down, backspace, delete, etc > > keys. > >>Also, is there a list of non-allowed keys for menu accelerators? > > > Hi Dan, > > I've not spotted any docs anywhere for that either, and as per standard > GTK and GLib development requirements, keep a copy of the full > source-code to trawl through... I hope your request for better > documentation doesn't get shot down in flames like the last one. > > If you grab the source tarball, and look under gdk/gtkkeynames.c, you > will find an array which defines all the key names. > > The ones mentioned: > > ':' -> "colon" > '=' -> "equal" > "<shift>=" -> (I'd guess <shift>equal, <shift><equal> or similar?) > '/' -> "slash" > > I've no idea which the square brackets are...
gtk+-2.10.9/gdk/keynames.txt combined with xev managed to get me what I needed. Just posting here for the sake of having an answer in the archives. -Dan _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
