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Problem You have set up menus with stock images and accelerators in Part 3.
I'm not sure about Linux. On my machine running winxp, if I want to choose File New, the default php-gtk2 application requires one to choose Alt-F followed by N. But in standard window application, we usually don't release the Alt key after pressing F, that is, we usually press Alt-F Alt-N in a row.
Though this is a minor point, let's try to fix this as an exercise. It also serves as an example to show that php-gtk2 leaves enough hooks here and there that allow us to "tweak" it to suit our application needs.
Solution
- Use the steps as outlined in Part 3.
- To avoid too many global variables and passing of too many arguments around, we encapsulate the variables and functions associated with menu display in the class
Menu. The good thing about using classes is that once you have defined it and make sure everything works fine, you can forget about the details and display your menus with a one-liner: $menu = new Menu($vbox, $menu_definition, $accel_group);
- To allow support for Alt-F Alt-N, we simply intercepts the menu processing by setting up a
connect('key-press-event') to each of the top-level menu (i.e. the File, Edit and Test).
- When the user press Alt-F, the default handler will first pop up the File Menu listing all the menu options. When the user press Alt-N (actually any key), php-gtk2 will pass control to our 'key-press-event' handler. We just need to go through all the possible options and check if there's any matches. If there is, we simulate a click on the menu item by calling the
activate() function of the menu item. We then pass control back to php-gtk2 and let it take over from there.
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| <?php
$window = new GtkWindow();
$window->set_size_request(400, 150);
$window->connect_simple('destroy', array('Gtk','main_quit'));
$window->add($vbox = new GtkVBox());
$accel_group = new GtkAccelGroup();
$window->add_accel_group($accel_group);
// define menu definition
$menu_definition = array(
'_File' => array('_New|N', '_Open|O', '_Close|C', '<hr>', '_Save|S', 'Save _As','<hr>', 'E_xit'),
'_Edit' => array('Cu_t|X', '_Copy|C', '_Paste|V', '<hr>', 'Select _All|A', '<hr>', '_Undo|Z','_Redo|Y'),
'_Test' => array('Test_1|1', 'Test_2|2', 'Test_3|3', '<hr>',
array('Selection 1', 'Selection 2', 'Selection 3'),
'<hr>', 'Test_4|4')
);
$menu = new Menu($vbox, $menu_definition, $accel_group);
// display title
$title = new GtkLabel("Menu and RadioMenuItem - Part 4");
$title->modify_font(new PangoFontDescription("Times New Roman Italic 10"));
$title->modify_fg(Gtk::STATE_NORMAL, GdkColor::parse("#0000ff"));
$vbox->pack_start($title);
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel("To choose File New,"));
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel("the default php-gtk requires you to choose Alt-F followed by N."));
$vbox->pack_start(new GtkLabel("Now Alt-F Alt-N also works!"));
$window->show_all();
Gtk::main();
// class Menu
class Menu {
var $prev_keyval = 0;
var $prev_state = 0;
var $prev_keypress = '';
function Menu($vbox, $menu_definition, $accel_group) {
$this->menu_definition = $menu_definition;
$menubar = new GtkMenuBar();
$vbox->pack_start($menubar, 0, 0);
foreach($menu_definition as $toplevel => $sublevels) {
$top_menu = new GtkMenuItem($toplevel);
$menubar->append($top_menu);
$menu = new GtkMenu();
$top_menu->set_submenu($menu);
// let's ask php-gtk to tell us when user press the 2nd Alt key
$menu->connect('key-press-event', array(&$this, 'on_menu_keypress'), $toplevel); // note 1
foreach($sublevels as $submenu) {
if (strpos("$submenu", '|') === false) {
$accel_key = '';
} else {
list($submenu, $accel_key) = explode('|', $submenu);
}
if (is_array($submenu)) { // set up radio menus
$i=0;
$radio[0] = null;
foreach($submenu as $radio_item) {
$radio[$i] = new GtkRadioMenuItem($radio[0], $radio_item);
$radio[$i]->connect('toggled', array(&$this, "on_toggle"));
$menu->append($radio[$i]);
++$i;
}
$radio[0]->set_active(1); // select the first item
} else {
if ($submenu=='<hr>') {
$menu->append(new GtkSeparatorMenuItem());
} else {
$submenu2 = str_replace('_', '', $submenu);
$submenu2 = str_replace(' ', '_', $submenu2);
$stock_image_name = 'Gtk::STOCK_'.strtoupper($submenu2);
if (defined($stock_image_name)) {
$menu_item = new GtkImageMenuItem(constant($stock_image_name));
} else {
$menu_item = new GtkMenuItem($submenu);
}
if ($accel_key!='') {
$menu_item->add_accelerator("activate", $accel_group, ord($accel_key), Gdk::CONTROL_MASK, 1);
}
$menu->append($menu_item);
$menu_item->connect('activate', array(&$this, 'on_menu_select'));
$this->menuitem[$toplevel][$submenu] = $menu_item; // note 2
}
}
}
}
}
// process radio menu selection
function on_toggle($radio) {
$label = $radio->child->get_label();
$active = $radio->get_active();
if ($active) echo("radio menu selected: $label\n");
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Explanation
- This is the place where we "intercept" the processing of menu keypress.
- We keep a copy of the ID of each menu item so that we can "simulate" the clicking of the menu item later.
$event->state & Gdk::MOD1_MASK allows us to check for Alt keys. Since we are only interested in Alt keys, any keypress that are not Alt keys will be returned straight to php-gtk by returning a false.- The regular expression
/.*_([a-zA-Z0-9]).*/ extract the mnemonics of each menu item. E.g. "_Open" will return a "O", "Select _All" will return a "A".
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