MenuBuilder Shortcut Question

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WaltBrown
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MenuBuilder Shortcut Question

Post by WaltBrown » Sat Sep 18, 2010 4:01 pm

A common menu shortcut for a "Preferences" entry is "alt-Return" (see Gnome menu UI practices). I was unable to figure out how to enter "Return" in the Shortcut character box. I tried "\n" but MenuBuilder declared that was already in use but it wasn't.

By the way, MenuBuilder is extremely flakey - when editing menus, it constantly re-arranges previously edited menus, duplicates entries, and randomly inserts entries like "Item 22" in other menus besides the one being edited.

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Re: MenuBuilder Shortcut Question

Post by shadowslash » Sun Sep 19, 2010 4:10 pm

WaltBrown wrote:A common menu shortcut for a "Preferences" entry is "alt-Return" (see Gnome menu UI practices). I was unable to figure out how to enter "Return" in the Shortcut character box. I tried "\n" but MenuBuilder declared that was already in use but it wasn't.
I think you should edit the menu button manually. Is this how you want it to be?
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If yes then first, you need to go to the Property Inspector for your menu button and append #Return to your menu item.
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Re: MenuBuilder Shortcut Question

Post by WaltBrown » Mon Sep 20, 2010 6:06 am

Thanks!
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