8.1 Overview

Acceleratoritem class is used to create an individual keyboard shortcut as part of an accelerator table for Accelerator class. You cannot create independent instances of Acceleratoritem class. They always need to be embedded inside Accelerator class. See Accelerator class for details.

The following keys can currently be specified when creating an accelerator item using the <item> XML tag:

UP
Cursor up
DOWN
Cursor down
RIGHT
Cursor right
LEFT
Cursor left
HELP
Help key
DEL
Delete key
BACKSPACE
Backspace key
TAB
Tab key
RETURN
Return key
ENTER
Enter key
ESC
Escape
SPACE
Space key
F1 - F16
Function keys
INSERT
Insert key
HOME
Home key
END
End key
PAGEUP
Page up key
PAGEDOWN
Page down key
PRINT
Print key
PAUSE
Pause key

Furthermore, Acceleratoritem class supports the English alphabet characters from A to Z as well as the numbers 0 to 9 as key specifications. It doesn't matter whether you specify all these keys in upper, lower or mixed case. See Accelerator class for an example.


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