gtk-accelerator-parse (accelerator)

accelerator -- a string representing an accelerator

key -- an unsigned integer with an accelerator keyval
mask -- a gdk-modifier-type accelerator modifier mask, or nil

Parses a string representing an accelerator. The format looks like "<Control>a" or "<Shift><Alt>F1" or "<Release>z". The last one is for key release.

The parser is fairly liberal and allows lower or upper case, and also abbreviations such as "<Ctl>" and "<Ctrl>". Key names are parsed using the gdk-keyval-from-name function. For character keys the name is not the symbol, but the lowercase name, e.g. one would use "<Ctrl>minus" instead of "<Ctrl>-".

If the parse fails, the key argument will be set to 0.

(gtk-accelerator-parse "<Control>a")
=> 97
=> (:CONTROL-MASK)


(gtk-accelerator-parse "<Shift><Alt>F1")
=> 65470
=> (:SHIFT-MASK :MOD1-MASK)


(gtk-accelerator-parse "<Release>z")
=> 122
=> (:RELEASE-MASK)


(gtk-accelerator-parse "<Control>minus")
=> 45
=> (:CONTROL-MASK)


(gtk-accelerator-parse "not valid")
=> 0
=> NIL