What is an accelerator for the PopupMenu node?

zyq0825

Can anyone explain to me what is an accelerator for the PopupMenu node, please?

The document says "Accelerators are special combinations of keys that activate the item, no matter which control is focused.", but it's asking for an int, which is the count of the accelerator. Then how do I set the "special combinations of keys"? Is it the same as a shortcut? If so, when I add_shortcut, do I need to set the accelerator as 1 as well?

Megalomaniak

Sorry, haven't used that before, so not sure either, but I did open an issue on the doc's tracker: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-docs/issues/2760

nisovin

It uses the KeyList and KeyModifierMask enums from here:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/classes/class_@globalscope.html

So you can use KEY_MASK_CTRL | KEY_A to make a shortcut for Ctrl+A.

zyq0825

@nisovin said: It uses the KeyList and KeyModifierMask enums from here:

https://docs.godotengine.org/en/3.1/classes/class_@globalscope.html

So you can use KEY_MASK_CTRL | KEY_A to make a shortcut for Ctrl+A.

Thanks, it worked! I didn't know these are considered as int...Could you also explain the difference between shortcut and accelerator here for me, please?

nisovin

It seems like it's just two ways to do the same thing. Shortcuts might be a bit more powerful since they use an InputEvent, which might open up possibilities that accelerators don't have.