Re: Proper way to code Accelerators

From:
"Igor Tandetnik" <itandetnik@mvps.org>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 22 Nov 2006 17:28:22 -0500
Message-ID:
<#TMzFWoDHHA.4508@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Howdy <mailloop@bellsouth.net> wrote:

I have an Accelerator Table and none of the keys are working... Its
an old program being ported upwards.

Here's the table:
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Accelerator
//

PROGRAM_NAME ACCELERATORS
BEGIN
   "C", IDM_EDIT_COPY, VIRTKEY, CONTROL, NOINVERT
   "^X", IDM_EDIT_CUT, ASCII, NOINVERT
   "^D", IDM_EDIT_DELETE, ASCII, NOINVERT
   "^V", IDM_EDIT_PASTE, ASCII, NOINVERT
   "^O", IDM_JOBS_OPEN, ASCII, NOINVERT
   "R", IDM_JOBS_RUN, VIRTKEY, CONTROL, NOINVERT
   "^S", IDM_SETTINGS, ASCII, NOINVERT
   "^H", IDM_VIEW_HISTORY, ASCII, NOINVERT
   "^B", IDM_WINDOW_BOTH, ASCII, NOINVERT
   "^L", IDM_WINDOW_CALENDAR, ASCII, NOINVERT
   "^J", IDM_WINDOW_SCHED, ASCII, NOINVERT
END

I've tried most every combination and none of them are working...

if( (_hAccel = LoadAccelerators(_hInst, "PROGRAM_NAME")) == NULL)


I suspect PROGRAM_NAME is a #define for some integral constant (usually
defined in resource.h). If this is the case, make it

LoadAccelerators(_hInst, MAKEINTRESOURCE(PROGRAM_NAME))

--
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