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[Valik]

This idea came to me in another thread but I'm posting it here in case somebody wants to take the idea and run. Adding support for accelerator tables to AutoIt would be pretty simple. Make a wrapper function which calls CreateAccelerateTable()/LoadAccelerators(). I would expect the CreateAcceleratorTable() wrapper function to take a 2 dimensional array where element 0 is a Send()-compatible hotkey string and element 1 is the control ID to invoke. The CreateAcceleratorTable() should then automatically call LoadAccelerators() and as long as TranslateAccelerators() is called in the message pump, AutoIt GUI's will magically support accelerator keys.

For those who don't know, an accelerator table allows the creation of hotkeys which when pressed will trigger an event in the GUI (A button press, et cetera) but only while that GUI is active. It's keyboard shortcuts, basically.

[FuryCell]

Sounds like a good idea , as trying to use HotKeySet() locally in a GUI can be frustrating and clunky.

Edited by SolidSnake, 04 February 2006 - 01:42 PM.

[therks]

Any progress on this? I really wish someone would pick this up.

[therks]

*Sigh*
Over a year since this topic was created and still nothing has been done about it. Any dev's willing to take a look at it now?

[Valik]

I just looked and we don't actually call TranslateAccelerator(). It should be trivial to add that. But somebody else will have to take the initiative to do the rest (which can be done in AutoIt with DllCall()).

[WeMartiansAreFriendly]

I just looked and we don't actually call TranslateAccelerator(). It should be trivial to add that. But somebody else will have to take the initiative to do the rest (which can be done in AutoIt with DllCall()).

sounds good..

[RazerM]

I would really like this to be implemented into AutoIt, because it's a problem creating GUIs that have many hotkeys, as HotKeys can only be registered once for whole system.

Edited by RazerM, 18 July 2007 - 05:50 PM.

[Jon]

[rover]

Outstanding!

Thank You Jon and Devs!

[Zedna]

Thanks Jon!

Here is example how to use it as replace for HotkeySet()
for functions not associated with GUI controls.