On 5 Mar, "Glen Walker" wrote in message <trinity-70e1eb24-5a0e-4077-a404-0298319e014c-1425567846822@3capp-mailcom-lxa09>:
> The accelerator may be any alphanumeric character, any function key (from > F1 to F12) or one of the special characters listed in the table below > (again, case doesn't matter): The handling of keyboard shortcuts in RISC OS menus is one of the massive bodges that the OS is famed for. Back in the day when the OS used a fixed-width font or nothing, you just included the shortcuts in the menu text and right-aligned them by hand with spaces. Help... F1 Show Global History ^F6 or whatever. When we got proportional fonts on the desktop, that clearly stopped working. But to avoid breaking existing apps, Acorn defined a set of shortcut codes and when building a menu from Wimp_CreateMenu the Wimp searches menu entries looking for them at the end of line. If it finds one, it removes all of the preceeding spaces and then right-aligns them automatically. Unfortunately, as "Red", "Blue" and "Green" are names of keys in RISC OS 5, this can have some slightly unexpected consequences for a menu item like "See Red"... -- Steve Fryatt - Leeds, England http://www.stevefryatt.org.uk/
