Menu Accelerators - help!

Web Admin Himalayan Academy katir at hindu.org
Mon Sep 6 00:02:07 EDT 2010


  Yes,  did that.... still after IDE is suspended, the accelerator keys 
don't work.

This has plagued me for years...

On 9/5/10 4:35 PM, stephen barncard wrote:
> 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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