Setting Form Shortcut from DB

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Hi,

I need to set shortcuts for forms. normally we can set shortcuts using form_keydown event.

Now I want to fix the shortcuts from DB.

Assume Ctrl+Alt+P is set to a form.

I can read the value from DB. now i am having "Ctrl+Alt+P" in a string Variable.

How can We assign this as shortcut for a certain form???

Thanks & Regards,
Pal

Posted 11-May-12 4:57am

palraj001

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2012-05-11T05:05:00

Solution 1

How to register a keyboard shortcut[^]

Posted 11-May-12 5:05am

Maciej Los

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Wendelius 11-May-12 11:29am

Good link!

Maciej Los 11-May-12 11:46am

Thank you ;)

Sandeep Mewara 12-May-12 5:53am

Good link1 5!

Maciej Los 12-May-12 6:01am

Thank you ;)

Wendelius · Answer 2 · 2012-05-11T05:26:00

If you store the shortcuts in the database as a string, you can split the string based on + character and then map each element to proper enumeration in Keys[^].

As you have already done, use the KeyPreview property set to true and check for shortcuts in proper form event.

However, I feel that storing the shortcuts as text in the database is a bit awkward. Could you should consider a different kind of table design, for example shortcut key and 'boolean' columns for ALT, SHIFT etc or even use the Keys enumerations, possibly as rows instead of columns....