How do I add an accelerator key for an addin menu?

[Marko Kaiser]

A user requested me to add an accelerator key for a menu item in the addin menu. Is there a way to do this in c#? I could not find something about that in EA.chm.

[manfredw]

Hello Marko,

not sure iff that is what you want to do, but here is how you create the shortcuts within the menu:

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   public class YourAddinClass
    {
        // define menu constants
        const string menuHeader = "-&YourAddin...";
        const string menuSomeFunction = "&Some Function";
        ...

        public object EA_GetMenuItems(EA.Repository Repository, string Location, string MenuName)
        {

                switch (MenuName)
                {
                    case "": // header goes here
                        return menuHeader;
                    case menuHeader: // submenus go here
                        string[] subMenus = { menuSomeFunction };
                        return subMenus;
                }
 
            return "";
        }
    }

HTH

Manfred

[Marko Kaiser]

No I already have a menu with multiple entries. I want to add an accelerator key for one menu item.

[Geert Bellekens]

You can't.

Geert