Don't use & as accelerator char in MenuItem
lazarus / 31-LCL

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AlexTP · 2018-06-12 06:58

How to disable & as accelerator char in MenuItem, so & is shown as
usual caption char?
Only to double it as &&? Not ok.

For all widgetsets.

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wp · 2018-06-12 07:12

What do you mean with "not ok"? Not acceptable? Not working?

Doubling the "&" in the menuitem caption does show the "&" for me (Win
10)

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AlexTP · 2018-06-12 08:16

I mean- its not nice trick. Better to have option in TMenuItem. But
ok, used && now.

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wp · 2018-06-12 08:40

Quote from: Alextp on June 12, 2018, 10:16:33 amI mean- its not nice
trick. Better to have option in TMenuItem. But ok, used && now.
It is the Delphi way, and in the end it comes from Windows (DrawText,
DT_HIDEPREFIX, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-
us/library/windows/desktop/dd162498(v=vs.85).aspx).

When there were an option in TMenuItem then how would you handle the
case of having the underlined accelerator character together with a
normal "&" in the same menu item?