I still DO NOT UNDERSTAND keyboard accelerators

[BoudewijnEctor]

Hi, Does anyone know a good tutorial on keyboard accels, or does anyone want to give sime kind of lesson about it (like a checklist or something). My problem is like this: I have an app wich shows pictures, this works. But every time a user presses the right-arrow button, the app needs to show a new picture (this is done by calling showNextPicture()). I've already build showNextPicture(), but I can't build the link between the key and the function. PS I'm using a dialog based app, with MFC support Thanks for reading this!

[Terry ONolley]

Look at PreTranslateMessage() and TranslateMessage() in your docs. It will point you to where you can determine what key was pressed and from there what handler to call.

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[BoudewijnEctor]

OK, I've read it, But Is still don't understand what exactly I've got to do with those messages etc. can you explain that to me?

[Steve S]

Add a menu option like ID_SHOW_NEXT, make this call your function, then map the arrow key to your menu option in the accelerator resource. Steve S