Why Accelerator keys are not visible in menu options in sdi mfc vc++

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Why Accelerator keys are not visible in menu options of the application in sdi mfc vc++ 2010

Posted 21-Jan-13 22:07pm

anushagodavarthi

Updated 21-Jan-13 22:41pm

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Andy411 22-Jan-13 4:21am

What do you mean with "menu options"? AFAIK You have to add the accelerator keys in the menu text by yourself. e.g.: "Save\tCtrl-S"

Jochen Arndt 22-Jan-13 4:32am

Andy is right for shortcut keys.

If you refer to the underlined accelerator keys, see this MSDN blog post:
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2005/05/03/414317.aspx

Andy411 22-Jan-13 4:55am

Good hint, Jochen!

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H.Brydon · Answer 1 · 2013-01-22T06:06:00

Defining accelerator keys and menu item accelerators are two separate tasks.

Accelerator keys are implemented in the resource file as:

IDR_ACCELERATORS ACCELERATORS 
BEGIN
    "A",            ID_EDIT_SELECT_ALL,     VIRTKEY, CONTROL, NOINVERT
    "C",            ID_EDIT_COPY,           VIRTKEY, CONTROL, NOINVERT
    "V",            ID_EDIT_PASTE,          VIRTKEY, CONTROL, NOINVERT
    "X",            ID_EDIT_CUT,            VIRTKEY, CONTROL, NOINVERT
    "Z",            ID_EDIT_UNDO,           VIRTKEY, CONTROL, NOINVERT
    VK_F6,          ID_NEXT_PANE,           VIRTKEY 
    VK_F6,          ID_PREV_PANE,           VIRTKEY, SHIFT
END

Menu items are implemented in the resource file as:

IDR_MAINMENU MENU DISCARDABLE
BEGIN
    POPUP "&File"
    BEGIN
        MENUITEM "E&xit",                       ID_APP_EXIT
    END
END

Note the use of the ampersand ("&") in the menu definitions.