How to read all shortcut keys of an application

[JoDeGr8]

Hi,
Is it possilbe to read all hotkeys(or shortcut keys) registered by an
application? For example the CTRL+S in MS Word?


Thanks in advance,

Regards,
John.

[David Lowndes]

Post by JoDeGr8
Is it possilbe to read all hotkeys(or shortcut keys) registered by an
application? For example the CTRL+S in MS Word?

John,

I suspect it won't be consistent between different applications. For
Office applications I'd have a look in to the object model - that may
expose the keyboard accelerators somehow.

Dave

[Tim Roberts]

Post by JoDeGr8
Is it possilbe to read all hotkeys(or shortcut keys) registered by an
application? For example the CTRL+S in MS Word?

Not all, but you can get some of them. One of the tables in an
application's resources is the ACCELERATORS table, which globally maps
keystrokes to actions. You can read that table from a program using the
normal resource APIs.

However, that's not universal. It won't help with accelerator keys in
dialogs (like &Load and &Save).

[Ben Voigt [C++ MVP]]

Post by Tim Roberts

Post by JoDeGr8
Is it possilbe to read all hotkeys(or shortcut keys) registered by an
application? For example the CTRL+S in MS Word?

Not all, but you can get some of them. One of the tables in an
application's resources is the ACCELERATORS table, which globally maps
keystrokes to actions. You can read that table from a program using the
normal resource APIs.

Typically applications which allow menu and toolbar customization replace
TranslateMessage with their own function, which doesn't use the ACCELERATOR
resource.

Post by Tim Roberts
However, that's not universal. It won't help with accelerator keys in
dialogs (like &Load and &Save).
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