Subj : Re: CTRL key
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : mike
Date : Fri Jul 16 2004 09:29 pm

> Are you trying to create a shortcut in your menu bar? If so then the code
> would look something like this...

This is exactly what i'm trying to do. however the & is for the ALT key. my
menu is setup like this in my resource file (see below). pressing CTRL-A
doesn't do anything. however if i press ALT-F to activate the File Menu and
then i press 'a', i get the action as if i clicked File->Add.

MYMENU MENU
{
 POPUP "&File"
 {
  MENUITEM "&Add...\tCtrl-A", ID_FILE_ADD_MENU
  MENUITEM "&Modify...\tCtrl-M", ID_FILE_MODIFY_MENU
  MENUITEM "&Delete\tCtrl-D", ID_FILE_DELETE_MENU
  MENUITEM "&Save\tCtrl-S", ID_FILE_SAVE_MENU
  MENUITEM SEPARATOR
  MENUITEM "&Generate CSV file\tCtrl-G", ID_FILE_CSV_MENU
  MENUITEM "&Print\tCtrl-P", ID_FILE_PRINT_MENU, GRAYED
  MENUITEM SEPARATOR
  MENUITEM "E&xit\tAlt-F4", ID_FILE_EXIT_MENU
 }
}

> case WM_CREATE:
> {
> HMENU hMenu, hSubMenu;
> hMenu = CreateMenu();
> hSubMenu = CreatePopupMenu();
> AppendMenu(hSubMenu,MF_STRING,ID_FILE_EXIT,"E&xit");
> AppendMenu(hMenu,MF_STRING|MF_POPUP,(UINT)hSubMenu,"&File");
> SetMenu(hwnd,hMenu);
> }

> This would create a menu that uses CTRL+x to as a shortcut to exit the
> program and CTRL+F to open a file. Hope this helps you out.

This uses the ALT key and not the CTRL key.


aloha,
mike

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