On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 5:04 AM, Nathan Broadbent nathan.f77@gmail.com wrote:

Hello,

I'm working on the TreeBrowser plugin. I have fixed a few bugs, so I'm looking forward to sending pull requests when geany-plugins is on github :)

I'm currently trying to add a keybinding for deleting objects from the treeview. I have added a KB_DELETE_OBJECT keybinding, and I've mapped this to the delete key, which works fine. However, the keybinding for the sidebar is still activated when the editor has focus, and I press the 'delete' key. I would like the keybinding to only activate if the sidebar widget has focus (is active). This is also a problem for the 'rename object' keybinding that was already there.

Keybindings are global, they don't apply to one widget.

Why is this so? Because GTK keybinding has changed several times over the life of Geany so Geany does it itself and so can support a range of GTK versions.

The last parameter to the 'keybindings_set_item' function is: GtkWidget * menu_item  -  "Optional widget to set an accelerator for, or NULL." I've tried setting this to 'treeview' or 'sidebar_vbox', but that doesn't seem to work.

This is the menu_item (which is the parameter name :) to show the accelerator on, not a widget to apply it to.

I'd be really grateful if someone would be able to help me understand how to solve this.

You need to use the GTK keybinding facilities to bind keys to widgets. But of course you can't use the standard keybinding prefs AFAIK.

Cheers Lex