[wxPython-users] Bind acceleratore table to a function and not to an id

[Robin Dunn]

Franz Steinhaeusler wrote:
> Hello NG,
> 
> I have a short sample.
> 
> The problem is.
> Imagine you have many controls in a Dialog.
> If you are in a random control, with one hotkey I want
> to exit the dialog.
> you want to quit the dialog with ctrl-q for example.
> 
> With the acceleratortable, you can only bind keys to id's, not 
> functions.
> But I don't want to bind every control separatly to such an handler.
> Is there any way to have a sort of acceleratortable to bind
> it "globally" to one function?

I think you misunderstand the accelerator table a little bit.  The ID in 
  the table entries is not the ID of the control that the event will 
come from, but the ID that will be sent in the simulated menu event, and 
which can be used to make the event binding.  So the basic pattern is 
something like this:

	accelId = wx.NewId()
	tbl = wx.AcceleratorTable([(wx.ACCEL_ALT,  ord('X'), accelId)])
	self.SetAcceleratorTable(tbl)
	self.Bind(wx.EVT_MENU, self.OnDoSomething, id=accelId)

When Alt-X is pressed in the context of self, a EVT_MENU event is sent 
with an id of accelId.

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