GtkAccelLabel {RGtk2}R Documentation

GtkAccelLabel

Description

A label which displays an accelerator key on the right of the text

Methods and Functions

gtkAccelLabelNew(string = NULL, show = TRUE)
gtkAccelLabelSetAccelClosure(object, accel.closure)
gtkAccelLabelGetAccelWidget(object)
gtkAccelLabelSetAccelWidget(object, accel.widget)
gtkAccelLabelGetAccelWidth(object)
gtkAccelLabelRefetch(object)
gtkAccelLabel(string = NULL, show = TRUE)

Hierarchy

  GObject
   +----GInitiallyUnowned
         +----GtkObject
               +----GtkWidget
                     +----GtkMisc
                           +----GtkLabel
                                 +----GtkAccelLabel

Interfaces

GtkAccelLabel implements GtkBuildable and AtkImplementorIface.

Detailed Description

The GtkAccelLabel widget is a subclass of GtkLabel that also displays an accelerator key on the right of the label text, e.g. 'Ctl+S'. It is commonly used in menus to show the keyboard short-cuts for commands.

The accelerator key to display is not set explicitly. Instead, the GtkAccelLabel displays the accelerators which have been added to a particular widget. This widget is set by calling gtkAccelLabelSetAccelWidget.

For example, a GtkMenuItem widget may have an accelerator added to emit the "activate" signal when the 'Ctl+S' key combination is pressed. A GtkAccelLabel is created and added to the GtkMenuItem, and gtkAccelLabelSetAccelWidget is called with the GtkMenuItem as the second argument. The GtkAccelLabel will now display 'Ctl+S' after its label.

Note that creating a GtkMenuItem with gtkMenuItemNewWithLabel (or one of the similar functions for GtkCheckMenuItem and GtkRadioMenuItem) automatically adds a GtkAccelLabel to the GtkMenuItem and calls gtkAccelLabelSetAccelWidget to set it up for you.

A GtkAccelLabel will only display accelerators which have GTK_ACCEL_VISIBLE set (see GtkAccelFlags). A GtkAccelLabel can display multiple accelerators and even signal names, though it is almost always used to display just one accelerator key.

# Creating a simple menu item with an accelerator key.

  # Create a GtkAccelGroup and add it to the window.
  accel_group = gtkAccelGroup();
  window$addAccelGroup(accel_group)

  # Create the menu item
  save_item = gtkMenuItem("Save")
  menu$add(save_item)

  # Now add the accelerator to the GtkMenuItem. 
  # It will be activated if the user types ctrl-s
  # We just need to make sure we use the "visible" flag here to show it.
  save_item$addAccelerator("activate", accel_group, .gdkS, 
        "control-mask", "visible")

Structures

GtkAccelLabel
The GtkAccelLabel struct contains private data only, and should be accessed using the functions below.

Convenient Construction

gtkAccelLabel is the equivalent of gtkAccelLabelNew.

Properties

accel-closure [GClosure : Read / Write]

The closure to be monitored for accelerator changes.

accel-widget [GtkWidget : Read / Write]

The widget to be monitored for accelerator changes.

Author(s)

Derived by RGtkGen from GTK+ documentation

References

http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkAccelLabel.html


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