[Project_owners] acceltext

[Onno Ekker]

Philip Chee wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:23:08 +0200, Onno Ekker wrote:
>   
>> I'm trying to get a menuitem's acceltext, but this only works if the 
>> menu has been initialized. Maybe I could trick Thunderbird to show and 
>> hide the menu using Neil's recent tips to show a menu, but this will 
>> probably cause the screen to flash.
>>
>> Is there a better way to initialize the menus or to calculate the 
>> acceltext from the key and modifiers?
>>     
>
> Hmm. menuitems in general or some particular menuitems? If the latter
> you might like to look at the source to see how they are initialized.
> There might be a few clues there.
>   
I meant to ask for menuitems somewhere in the main-menubar. I did look 
in the chrome, but couldn't find how acceltext is initialized there. 
Only references I see, are some xbl:inherits="value=acceltext" in 
chrome://global/content/bindings/menu.xml and the some code in popup.xml 
that seems to calculate the maximum width of the acceltexts of a menu.

I suppose I have to really look into the source. Any pointers for that? 
Should I just download a tarball and start digging, or is there a good 
website (lxr, mxr, bonsai?) where you can easily search the source in a 
more structured way?

Onno