The hotkeys will only work when the menu is active (when you click the right mouse button), which makes them pretty useless on popup menus. If you want hotkeys I would recommend you put the cut, copy, etc. on an Edit menu (or some other menu of your choosing) on your main menu.
>Good Morning,
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>I have a shortcut menu (edtshort.mnx) which has four prompts: cut, copy paste and clear. For each, the result is "Bar #". For the commands, I am using _med_cut, _med_copy, _med_paste and _med_clear from the main VFP menu system.
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>In the options, I have the key label and key text set to the obvious Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V, etc.
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>In the Right Click event of my base classes, I inserted this code:
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DO edtshort.mpr WITH THIS
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>While the right click and select works to cut, copy, etc., using the Ctrl+C key combination does not. How can I allow the user to use the keyboard for this? I thought that defining the key combination in the menu would handle it, but obviously I was incorrect :)
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>TIA