Why am I being restricted by visual studio while creating my accelerator table?

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Why creating my accelerator table resource in visual studio was I choose ascii character as the primary character, the prefix part of the table gives me only ALT option. Also, wanted to use CTRL + P for printing, but the table will not give me a CTRL option when I choose letter p as the primary key. I ended up using mostly function keys. How can I remedy this?

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I tried hard to figure out the problem by reading documentation onlone.

Posted 8-Jul-24 20:59pm

Gbenbam

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Gbenbam 9-Jul-24 6:35am

@RichardMacCutchan, I saw a mail that you commented on this question,but I can't see the comment here.

Richard MacCutchan 9-Jul-24 15:44pm

Sorry, I tried it earlier by selecting <CTRL> first, and then selecting the letter P, and ASCII. It appears to work, but /i did not test it myself. Maybe I'll get time tomorrow.

Gbenbam 9-Jul-24 7:51am

@RichardMacCutchan, I was able to add CTRL to P only when I specified it
as a VIRTUAL key. I have always believed that letters of the English alphabets should be stated as ASCII keys. Is that not the case?

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charlieg · Answer 1 · 2024-07-09T01:00:00

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Help us help you. What OS, version of OS, and version of Visual Studio?

Posted 9-Jul-24 1:00am

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Gbenbam 9-Jul-24 7:40am

Wndows 11, visual. studio 2022.

merano99 · Answer 2 · 2024-07-09T10:37:00

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All keys that are defined as combinations with modifier keys must be declared as virtual keys (VIRTKEY). Virtual keys are an abstraction of the physical keys on a keyboard and are represented by a unique numeric ID such as ID_FILE_PRINT. The entry in the resource file could look like this:

"^p", ID_FILE_PRINT, VIRTKEY, CONTROL

Posted 9-Jul-24 10:37am

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Gbenbam 9-Jul-24 18:25pm

Why ^p and not P ?