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Accelerator keys

wkramer — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 01:13:51 GMT

Hello, I have an SDI application that uses one edit control as simple file viewer. I have associated the key combination Ctrl+C as short cut key with the "copy" menu entry. I use "LoadAccelerators" to load the accelerator table and I use "TranslateAccelerator" in the message loop.
The menu entry for copy does what it has to do and so does the standard short cut for copy (ctrl+insert). But the short cut I defined (ctrl+C) doesn't function. In fact none of the short cut keys I associated to menu entries in the accelerator table do what they should do.

Any ideas? Thanks,

Walter Kramer

Re: Accelerator keys

Jugoslav_Dujic — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 02:27:19 GMT

TranslateAccelerator as the first argument has handle of the window accelerator is intended for. I assume that you have in the message
loop:

 
      IF (.NOT.TranslateAccelerator(Mesg%hWnd, hAccelTable, Mesg)) THEN 
            iSt=TranslateMessage(Mesg) 
            iSt=DispatchMessage(Mesg) 
      END IF

instead, replace it with

IF (.NOT.TranslateAccelerator(hFrame, hAccelTable, Mesg)) THEN
...

and it should work OK (hFrame is apparently the handle of the frame window). The other way, WM_COMMAND goes to the edit control, which neither handles it nor passes it to its parent window.

HTH

Jugoslav

Re: Accelerator keys

wkramer — Wed, 07 Mar 2001 03:18:55 GMT

Yes, you are as always right.

Thank you,

Walter