### Function

# Gtk accelerator_parse

#### Declaration [src]

    gboolean
    gtk_accelerator_parse (
      const char* accelerator,
      guint* accelerator_key,
      GdkModifierType* accelerator_mods
    )

#### Description [src]

Parses a string representing an accelerator.

The format looks like “`<Control>a`” or “`<Shift><Alt>F1`”.

The parser is fairly liberal and allows lower or upper case, and also abbreviations such as “`<Ctl>`” and “`<Ctrl>`”.

Key names are parsed using `gdk_keyval_from_name()`. For character keys the name is not the symbol, but the lowercase name, e.g. one would use “`<Ctrl>minus`” instead of “`<Ctrl>-`”.

Modifiers are enclosed in angular brackets `<>`, and match the `GdkModifierType` mask:

- `<Shift>` for `GDK_SHIFT_MASK`
- `<Ctrl>` for `GDK_CONTROL_MASK`
- `<Alt>` for `GDK_ALT_MASK`
- `<Meta>` for `GDK_META_MASK`
- `<Super>` for `GDK_SUPER_MASK`
- `<Hyper>` for `GDK_HYPER_MASK`

If the parse operation fails, `accelerator_key` and `accelerator_mods` will be set to 0 (zero).

#### Parameters

`accelerator`

  Type: `const char*`

  String representing an accelerator.

  The data is owned by the caller of the function.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

`accelerator_key`

  Type: `guint*`

  Return location for accelerator keyval.

  The argument will be set by the function.
  The argument can be `NULL`.

`accelerator_mods`

  Type: `GdkModifierType`

  Return location for accelerator modifier mask.

  The argument will be set by the function.
  The argument can be `NULL`.
  The caller of the function takes ownership of the returned data, and is responsible for freeing it.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

No description available.