About accelerator?

[Ben Jain]

In MFC programming, how can I use the accelerator in a dialog with a menu?

[Elango Ganesan]

If you are using menu in a dialog, you have to load the accelerator and translate the accelerator keys in PreTranslateMessage to use the accelerator.


For example, to load the accelerator include the following code in InitInstance() of your app class.


m_hAccelTable = ::LoadAccelerators(AfxGetInstanceHandle(),

MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDR_ACCELERATOR));


To translate the accelerator keys override the PreTranslateMessage() function in your app class.


BOOL CMyApp:::PreTranslateMessage(MSG* pMsg)

{

//m_pMainDlg is your main dialog which contains the menu

if (TranslateAccelerator(m_pMainDlg->m_hWnd, m_hAccelTable, pMsg))

{

return FALSE;

}


return CWinApp::PreTranslateMessage(pMsg);

}


This will take care of accelerator keys

[Beau B]

This worked out great - just one issue - I am getting the "Default sound" played on each accelerator key press. How can I stop this from playing?