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RE: Help with Win32 keyboard shortcuts

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Subject: RE: Help with Win32 keyboard shortcuts
From: "Andy Dent" <dent at oofile dot com dot au>
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2004 11:55:15 +0800
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Kamm Schreiner righteously states
> 
> I'm telling you that Ctrl+V, Ctrl+X and Ctrl+C should *always* work in
a Windows application.

I and Microsoft agree

"An application must not affect any system-wide shortcut keys (a key or
a combination of keys used to perform a command), such as the Windows
logo key () that opens the Start menu. An application must also follow
commonly recognized shortcut key assignments, such as CTRL+C for Copy
and CTRL+Z for Undo."
<http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnacc/
html/ATG_KeyboardShortcuts.asp>

It's a bug if RB doesn't support them just because there's not a menu!


Aaron later replied
>Without a menu, you're not defining a shortcut to anything the user 
>can see, which is bad.

That's bad for application-defined shortcuts but not for the standard
ones and hopefully my link above clarifies their attitude to
"system-wide shortcut" :-)

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