Re: NewEra 2.2 - Accelerators on child windows (CORRECTION)

Posted in 1997

Dennis Pimple — Fri, 24 Oct 1997 10:47:39 -0600 — source: Informix-list mailing list archive (1991-1998)

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------53B233DA2F38 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I posted the wrong document in my prior mail. The one posted was for NewEra 2.0; and there are several features in 3.x that make things simpler (or maybe I just got smarter). Attached is the real document. Dennis Pimple wrote: > > This is expected behavior, and if you reference "accelerator" in the > NewEra Help you'll see it's published. I doubt if it will change; if it > does a bunch of my code breaks. > > Attached is a white paper I wrote up on how to make window-aware > accelerators. If anyone wants it in non-MS Word form, let me know. > > I have a windows class "wnStandard", and a menu class "mnHotKey" that > help implement the procedure outlined in the paper. I'll share on > request (no warranty, natch), but please read the doc first to see if > you really want/need it. > > > Ian Lucas wrote: > > > > Has anyone encountered the problem (found a fix) of using accelerators > > on menu buttons on child windows ? > > > > It appears that the accelerator actually gets operated on in the parent > > window (assuming the same CTL-? and ALT-? mappings exist in both). > > In fact, if the parent menu option is off and the child is on - no > > action at all occurs when the child accelerator is invoked. Similarly, > > if the child menu button is off and the parent is on, the child program > > may crash (or other strange results) if the accelerator is invoked on > > the child. > > //////////////// ======================================================= ////////// // Dennis J. 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