hi Paul > its going to be a mess one way or another. GTK's handling of key events > and bindings is very fragmented and messy, and you will find that things > done one way work, and another way do not work. sometimes :) > > it will be less of a mess, and you'll probably have less issues long > term, if you move away from constructing menu items etc, and instead > build Actions and then strings to feed to the UI manager and then fetch > a menu/menubar/whatever from it. Thanks for the tip. I'm beginning to get the feeling that this is definitely the best way to go as all of the messiness related to action groups and accel groups is encapsulated. This is not exactly what I was hoping for but I'm not going to fight it. cheers, wes _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list