How can i use shortcut keys?

[DjChris14]

good day to all!i try to check some thread regarding shortcut keys but i cant find a good one.

the scenario here is that i want to impliment actions using keyboard inputs. I may press f1-f8 and also alt combinations and ctrl combinations.

how can i do this?

[NoHero]

You can use accelerators to combine keys with modifier to menues. Or you can use "RegisterHotkey" to register a global hotkey your pogramm can handle.

Just use MSDN and search for these two phrases.

[DjChris14]

can you give me a code snipet so i can have a good pattern... thats all..

[NoHero]

For me I cannot explain this all as good as here.

[DjChris14]

i forgot to add... im using sdi application and all modules are in modal state....
so every dialog that pops-up will have different shortcut approaches...
i need some code samples to be my pattern code

[NoHero]

i forgot to add... im using sdi application and all modules are in modal state....
so every dialog that pops-up will have different shortcut approaches...
i need some code samples to be my pattern code

If you post your code, I will know what you are doing and how to add this functionality to your code. Otherwise it's hard to help you.

[DjChris14]

i cant post the code because i havent started to put short cuts... anyway ill give you the logical flow what i wanted to do...

in my dialog, i have several controls like radio button(3), check boxes(2), command buttons (command buttons can have its shortcut keys right?).

if i press let say f1, one of the radio buttons will be true and the last 2 will be false.., if i press f2, check button1 will be active (and be deactivate) same with check button2...

have you figure it out? can the accelerators handle it? i notice about the accelerators is that they pertains to controls on every commands being issued...

[DjChris14]

in additional to it... if i dont register the control shortcuts of command button, is there an effect to it?

[NoHero]

Just create an appropiate accelerate resource - You can assign key strokes to ID's, so if this key is pressed within your application a WM_COMMAND message for the specified ID will occur - and change your 'InitInstance' as follows:

// Some code before

// Load your accelerator table here
HACCEL haccel = LoadAccelerators(GetModuleHandle(NULL), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_ACCEL)); 

// Possible check if haccel is NULL ...

while ((bRet = GetMessage(&msg, NULL, 0, 0)) != 0)
{
      if (bRet == -1)
      {
          // handle the error and possibly exit
      }
      else
      { 
            if (!TranslateAccelerator( 
                    hwndMain,  // handle to receiving window, use the hwnd of your main window here
                    haccel,
                    &msg)) 
            {
                TranslateMessage(&msg); 
                DispatchMessage(&msg); 
            } 
      } 
}
return FALSE