Re: [pygtk] More on cut+paste accelerators
Richard Procter wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm also having some issues with the default cut and paste which is that
>> my application can also cut and paste files. These file actions have
>> naturally been assigned the accelerators Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V etc but this
>> naturally means that currently these accelerators don't work for
>> selected text in the TextView widgets. What I'd like is for Ctrl+C to
>> copy a file if a file is selected and copy some text (as the default) if
>> some text is selected.
>>
>> What's the easiest or "normal" way of fixing something like this?
>
> Hi Geoff,
>
> I've also come up against this problem with glade. I couldn't find a
> canonical way to fix it.
>
> My approach has been to create custom accelerator handlers which
> return False if a global copy/paste is not appropiate for the focused
> widget, allowing the keypress event to percolate to the TextView
> widget and trigger its keybindings.
>
> I've included the relevant code below.
>
> The wrinkle is that, as glade is no longer handling their bindings,
> the glade-created copy/paste menu items no longer show
> "CTRL-C"/"CTRL-V". So I kludge it by giving them fake accelerators.
> There may well be a cleaner way to do this.
>
> best,
> Richard.
>
Hi Richard,
Thanks for your response. I've also implemented a solution to this now,
which works a bit differently. I'll also paste it below and then others
can decide what the canonical solution should be...
The basic plan is to make the "file cut, copy and paste" actions
insensitive when a textual widget is in focus, which also has the effect
of disabling their accelerators and hence unblocking the default ones.
It doesn't cause any trouble as it isn't possible to execute these
actions anyway without moving the focus away from the text widget again.
So I inherit these actions from the following class. (The
isActiveOnCurrent method is filled in by the derived classes to
determine whether these actions should otherwise be sensitive)
Regards,
Geoff
# Cut, copy and paste
class FocusDependentAction:
def connectFocus(self):
self.widget.get_toplevel().connect("set-focus", self.focusChanged)
def focusChanged(self, window, widget):
freeTextWidget = isinstance(widget, gtk.Entry) or
isinstance(widget, gtk.TextView)
if freeTextWidget:
self.widget.set_sensitive(False)
elif self.isActiveOnCurrent():
self.widget.set_sensitive(True)
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Re: [pygtk] More on cut+paste accelerators
> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:11:06 +0200
> From: Geoff Bache
> Subject: [pygtk] More on cut+paste accelerators
> To: pygtk@daa.com.au
> Message-ID: <4acb41ea.9010...@jeppesen.com>
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>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm also having some issues with the default cut and paste which is
> that
> my application can also cut and paste files. These file actions have
> naturally been assigned the accelerators Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V etc but this
> naturally means that currently these accelerators don't work for
> selected text in the TextView widgets. What I'd like is for Ctrl+C to
> copy a file if a file is selected and copy some text (as the
> default) if
> some text is selected.
>
> What's the easiest or "normal" way of fixing something like this?
Hi Geoff,
I've also come up against this problem with glade. I couldn't find a
canonical way to fix it.
My approach has been to create custom accelerator handlers which
return False if a global copy/paste is not appropiate for the focused
widget, allowing the keypress event to percolate to the TextView
widget and trigger its keybindings.
I've included the relevant code below.
The wrinkle is that, as glade is no longer handling their bindings,
the glade-created copy/paste menu items no longer show "CTRL-C"/"CTRL-
V". So I kludge it by giving them fake accelerators. There may well
be a cleaner way to do this.
best,
Richard.
def setup_global_copy_paste_accelerators(accel_group, fake_accel_group,
wTree, action_factory):
# Here's the problem. GTK AccelGroups key-bindings trump
# widget key-bindings, and the AccelGroup handlers for the
accelerators
# added by glade always accept an invocation. Therefore
# adding, e.g. CTRL-V, will always override the CTRL-V binding
# for the TextView object which is used to edit the outcomes.
#
# So, we install our custom AccelGroup handlers, which test to
# see if the GlobalClipboardAction in question is valid in the
# given context. If not, the accelerator invocation will
# be rejected and the widget key-bindings tried.
paste_action=action_factory.make(actions.GlobalPaste)
copy_action=action_factory.make(actions.GlobalCopy)
def _dispatch_paste(accel_group, toplevel, keyval, modifier):
if paste_action.is_valid():
paste_action.execute()
return True # This accel group binding handled
return False
def _dispatch_copy(accel_group, toplevel, keyval, modifier):
if copy_action.is_valid():
copy_action.execute()
return True # This accel group binding handled
return False
# TODO: Lookup the bindings for these generic operations?
accel_group.connect_group(gtk.keysyms.V,
gtk.gdk.CONTROL_MASK, gtk.ACCEL_VISIBLE,
_dispatch_paste)
accel_group.connect_group(gtk.keysyms.C,
gtk.gdk.CONTROL_MASK, gtk.ACCEL_VISIBLE,
_dispatch_copy)
# Make these bindings appear in the menu bar menu items.
paste_item=wTree.get_widget("paste")
paste_item.add_accelerator('activate', fake_accel_group,
gtk.keysyms.V,
gtk.gdk.CONTROL_MASK, gtk.ACCEL_VISIBLE)
copy_item=wTree.get_widget("copy")
copy_item.add_accelerator('activate', fake_accel_group,
gtk.keysyms.C,
gtk.gdk.CONTROL_MASK, gtk.ACCEL_VISIBLE)
# HACK: This accel_group is never added to any toplevel. Why? We
# want some way to show an accelerator label in a menu item
# without actually creating a key-binding. We must also keep it
# alive until process termination; adding an accelerator is
# insufficient.
fake_global_accel_group = gtk.AccelGroup()
setup_global_copy_paste_accelerators(global_accel_group,
fake_global_accel_group,
wTree, action_factory)
> Regards,
> Geoff
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[pygtk] More on cut+paste accelerators
Hi all, I'm also having some issues with the default cut and paste which is that my application can also cut and paste files. These file actions have naturally been assigned the accelerators Ctrl+X, Ctrl+V etc but this naturally means that currently these accelerators don't work for selected text in the TextView widgets. What I'd like is for Ctrl+C to copy a file if a file is selected and copy some text (as the default) if some text is selected. What's the easiest or "normal" way of fixing something like this? As far as I can tell from the docs, accelerators apply to the entire window and there isn't an obvious way to divide it up so that they do different things if different widgets are in focus. Or is there some trick involving accelerator paths, accelerator groups and action groups that I haven't understood? Or do I need to explicitly connect up every gtk.Entry, gtk.TextView etc in the application so that when the user selects something there all the file actions get disabled? Regards, Geoff ___ pygtk mailing list pygtk@daa.com.au http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/
