Re: Using AbiWidget

On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 13:36 +0200, Teus Benschop wrote:
> Hi Martin,
>
> Thanks for your kind words to a newcomer.
>
> The problem was that the Ctrl-O shortcuts actually allows the user to
> open a file in the widget and once this new file was loaded, the
> abiwidget stopped emitting any signals. Hence I was looking for a method
> to override this shortcut.
>
> The hack found later was an unusual one, yet it worked: connect to the
> signal before the widget is shown:
>
> libabiword_init(argc, (const char **)argv);
> abi = abi_widget_new ();
> g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (abi), "key_press_event", G_CALLBACK
> (on_key_press_event), NULL);
> gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (window), abi);
> gtk_widget_show_all (window);
>
> I hope that this is a permanent hack and not something that might
> disappear in later versions of Gtk.
>
> Does the abiwidget have its own way to disable keybindings, or are we
> stuck with this hack?

You can't do it at the moment, but I need that too for OLPC, so it will
come soonish I hope.

Marc

> Regards,
>
> Teus.
>
>
>
> msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au wrote:
> >
> > Hi Tues,
> > Thanks for your interest in AbiWord and particularly libabiword. I
> > suggest you direct these sort of technical questions to the
> > development mailing list here:
> >
> > abiword-dev@abisource.com
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> > Martin
> >
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I've been looking around the internet for any examples of programs that
> >> use the abiwidget. There is one example on
> >> http://www.abiword.org/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/AbiWordSDK, and that was
> >> very helpful.
> >>
> >> But there is something I do not yet know how to solve. The AbiWidget has
> >> its own keybindings. I'd like to override these. For example, Ctrl-B now
> >> switches bold on. How to override this so that Ctrl-B no longer does that?
> >>
> >> I connected to the GtkWkidget's "key_press_event", like so:
> >>
> >> static gboolean on_key_press_event (GtkWidget * widget, GdkEventKey *
> >> event, gpointer user_data)
> >> {
> >> g_print ("Key pressed");
> >> return FALSE;
> >> }
> >>
> >> g_signal_connect (G_OBJECT (abi), "key_press_event", G_CALLBACK
> >> (on_key_press_event), NULL);
> >>
> >>
> >> But to no avail. The keybinding was still there. Setting the return
> >> value to TRUE makes no difference.
> >>
> >> Any help on overriding the keybindings is greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >> Teus.
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Received on Fri Mar 9 15:09:04 2007