Re: How to read all shortcut keys of an application

From:
"Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]" <bvoigt@newsgroup.nospam>
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Date:
Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:18:39 -0500
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"Tim Roberts" <timr@probo.com> wrote in message
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JoDeGr8 <johnemmatty@gmail.com> wrote:

Is it possilbe to read all hotkeys(or shortcut keys) registered by an
application? For example the CTRL+S in MS Word?


Not all, but you can get some of them. One of the tables in an
application's resources is the ACCELERATORS table, which globally maps
keystrokes to actions. You can read that table from a program using the
normal resource APIs.


Typically applications which allow menu and toolbar customization replace
TranslateMessage with their own function, which doesn't use the ACCELERATOR
resource.

However, that's not universal. It won't help with accelerator keys in
dialogs (like &Load and &Save).
--
Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.

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