Re: Accelerator that can't be deleted

From:
"Tom Serface" <tom@camaswood.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.mfc
Date:
Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:36:39 -0500
Message-ID:
<e97mTft5KHA.420@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Thanks for posting that. I wasn't losing sleep over it, but I confess that
this one had me curious. It's nice to know the resolution.

Tom

"Steve Achelis" <info@RescueRigger.com> wrote in message
news:6eaa1ab8-29eb-487a-820f-59ba2b8a9fa7@v12g2000prb.googlegroups.com...

On Apr 26, 1:24 pm, Steve Achelis <i...@RescueRigger.com> wrote:

I think my computer is possessed. My app (in VS2008 using the MFC
Enhancement Pack) defined an accelerator for the '-' key which posted
the message ID_VIEW_ZOOMOUT (which is defined as 33455). I wanted to
remove this accelerator. So I deleted the following line in the
"IDR_MAINFRAME ACCELERATORS" section of my rc file:


<snip>

I found the culprit! Apparently the CKeyboardManager stores the
accelerators (in \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Company\Product\Workspace
\Keyboard-0). I know the user can customize the accelerator keys by
right-clicking on the Quick Access Toolbar, choosing Customize and
then Customize Keyboard Shortcuts, but I'm surprised my resource-
defined accelerator ended up in the registry (and I didn't check the
customized keyboard shortcuts dialog before deleting the Keyboard-0
entry in the registry). At this point I'm just glad to have this bug
behind me.

Steve

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