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Short Cut Key is only for AWT menu items.

In Swing's JMenuItem you'll need to write a little bit of code for
accelerators.

Example:

JMenutItem aboutMenuItem = new JMenuItem("About");
aboutMenuItem.setAccelerator(KeyStroke.getKeyStroke('A',
java.awt.Event.SHIFT_MASK, false));

This sets the accelerator to shift-A.

Another way to do a short cut is to use menomic property:

JMenutItem aboutMenuItem = new JMenuItem("About");
aboutMenuItem.setMnemonic('A');

This underlines A, I guess it is also refer to as Hot Key.

Hope this helps.

--Wendy
JBuilder QA


nick bhanji <nbhanji@home.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> I am trying to use Key accelarator for menu items.  When I select
> Accelarator in the menuitem properties
> it comes up <none>.  I looked up in the help file which comes up as
follows:
>
> "
> Specifying keyboard shortcuts
>
> Keyboard shortcuts enable the user to perform a menu action by typing in a
> shortcut key combination. For example, a
> commonly used shortcut for File|Save is Ctrl+S.
>
> To specify a keyboard shortcut for a menu item,
>
> Select the menu item in the menu designer or in the component tree.
> In the Inspector, select the shortcut property and enter a value or choose
a
> key combination from the drop-down list.
> This list is only a subset of the valid combinations you can use.
>
> When you add a shortcut, it appears next to the menu item at runtime.
> "
>
> Can some one please check to make sure I am not the only one having the
> problem.
>
> Thanks in Advance
> nick.b
>
>
>