Key accelerators

[BoudewijnEctor]

Hi, I've made a key accelerator for my program (I did it by using the resource view), and I want to 'attach' it to my windows. How can I make sure that the accelerator table is associated with the window? Thanks

[Mike Dimmick]

If you're using MFC, and the window in question is a frame window (derived from CFrameWnd), it already has support for accelerators. To make the frame window load the accelerator table at the same time as the menu and other resources, give it the same resource ID as the menu and use LoadFrame to create the frame window. If you want an alternate set of accelerators, use LoadAccelTable. For a non-CFrameWnd window, you'll need to call LoadAccelerators to load the table, and insert a call to TranslateAccelerator in an override of PreTranslateMessage, returning TRUE if TranslateAccelerator does. I don't know enough WTL to offer a suggestion. If you're using the raw Win32 API, insert a call to TranslateAccelerator before your call to TranslateMessage in your message loop.