Re: Toolbar items: how to get them to show the shortcut letter underlined ?

On 25.05.2011 14:32, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:

> How can I define a quickhelp text for each toolbar item? It seems that
> by default the label of the toolbar item is used as the quickhelp
> (tooltip?) text, and that does not exhibit the shortcut key by
> underlying it.

Indeed the quickhelp text is the label. It *should* exhibit the shortcut 
key that is assigned to the same command as the toolbar item, if you 
make sure that the keyboard configuration was created before the toolbar 
was created. If not, this would be a "missing feature" ;-).

As I wrote, the accelerator key was shown for built-in commands and for 
basic macros. So I don't see a general reason why it shouldn't work for 
scripts.

>> As an example, I configured "SHIFT-ALT-G" for "Insert-Gallery" in the
>> keyboard configuration. The "view" menu (don't ask me why the menu has
>> it in "view", the config in "insert" ;-)) immediately shows the new
>> accelerator, the toolbar quickhelp doesn't. If I now open a new
>> document, its toolbar shows the accelerator in the quickhelp text of
>> the "Gallery" button.
> Just tried this via "Tools->Customize", but it did not work with the
> toolbar item.

*what* did you try? My example with ".uno:Gallery" or your script/macro?

In case you didn't notice, it is necessary to create the toolbar *after* 
you have configured the shortcut, e.g. by opening a new document window.

> P.S.: One observation: it is not possible to delete the programmatically
> created toolbar using "Tools ->  Customize" as the delete option is
> greyed out. One can delete the individual toolbar items and make the
> toolbar empty and on the next restart the toolbar seems to have gone.

I don't know if this is a bug or by intent, sorry.

Regards,
Mathias

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