On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Cam Farnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I ran into exactly this keyboard shortcut issue while writing the Rapyd-Tk > Python development environment (http://www.bitflipper.ca/rapyd/). My > solution is based on these functions, where the left part is the usual menu > label and the right part is the shortcut. If the length of the shortcut text > varies a lot you can compute the width on the fly as is done in Rapyd, > otherwise just use some reasonable constant. >
Why did you use that instead of using the accelerator option ? Ok, the
accelerator text doesn't go all the way to the right in the menu but
they get are all aligned and you don't have to worry about doing
anything else, and it is not that bad after all (not as I see at
least).
I'm attaching an image so you can confirm that you dislike its behavior.
>
> def PadToWidth(LeftPart,RightPart,Width,Widget):
> """
> Given left and right parts, return string of specified width in pixels.
> o "LeftPart" is the string to be left justified in the result.
> o "RightPart" is the string to be right justified in the result.
> o "Width" is the desired width, in pixels, of the result.
> o "Widget" the calculation is done with reference to the font set for this
> widget.
> Note that since we pad with space characters, the result will be as
> close as
> possible to the target size but will not necessarily be exactly the
> number
> of pixels requested.
> """
> UsedPixels = TextMeasure(LeftPart+RightPart,Widget)
> PadPixels = Width - UsedPixels
> PadCount = int(round(float(PadPixels) / float(TextMeasure(' ',Widget))))
> return '%s%s%s'%(LeftPart,' '*PadCount,RightPart)
>
> def TextMeasure(Text,Widget):
> """=u
> Measure size of "Text", in pixels, if displayed in "Widget".
> """
> return int(Widget.tk.call("font", "measure", Widget["font"]
> ,"-displayof", Widget.master, Text ))
>
>
>
> Johnston Jiaa wrote:
>
>>
>> Also, I have set keyboard shortcuts for some functions in my program. The
>> functions these shortcuts call are also linked to menu items in the menu
>> bar. How can I get the menu labels to reflect the keyboard shortcuts for
>> each relative command? I know I can set the shortcut as a string in the
>> label manually, but it will be stupid, not flush with the right edge of the
>> menu, like in other programs.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for helping my program not be stupid
>
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