Menu Accelerators - help!

stephen barncard stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com
Sun Sep 5 22:35:47 EDT 2010


Swami, can't you just "Suspend Developer Tools" in the Developer menu?

On 5 September 2010 19:29, Sivakatirswami <katir at hindu.org> wrote:

>  For some reason, I've never been able to get menu accelerator keys to work
> as expected.
>
> the dictionary entry on this makes sense, but could use some examples.
>  Seems straight forward enough...
>
> The syntax for menu item strings is:
>  [<flags>] <label> ['/' <accelerator> ['|' <tag>]]
>
> where <accelerator>
>
> would be, in my case: <modifiers> <char>
>
> A very common requirement is Find and Find Again. This looks correct to me:
>
> Find/^ F
> Find Again/^G
>
> The menu shows the cmd symbol (os x) and the letter, but cmd-f does nothing
> but invoke the IDE's find dialog; if I turn of development tools, it still
> does not work.  I tried these, since the IDE does not use them... as a
> test...
>
> Find/^U
> Find Again/^L
>
> But they are still unresponsive... and, if you enter an upper case
> character, does that mean the user has to use the shift key to make it work?
> I tried both, cmd-shift-U and cmd-U.
>
> neither work.
>
> What am I missing?  Will these *only* work in a standalone?
>
> Thanks
> Sivakatirswami
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