Migration Guide : Migrating from VisualAge Smalltalk V3.0 or earlier : Other migration concerns : Shortcut keys eliminated from Buttons
Shortcut keys eliminated from Buttons
In Windows terminology (see Windows Desktop Applications Glossary) there are 2 types of accelerators:
1. Access keys (Alt+character) are used on Push Buttons, Toggle Buttons, and Radio Buttons, either on the canvas or in a menu.
2. Shortcut keys (Alt+character, Ctrl+character, Shift+character, or certain special keys) are used only on menus.
The character associated with an access key is also referred to as a 'mnemonic' and results in the mnemonic character being underlined in the label associated with the button (if underlining is enabled by Windows).
In menus, an entry can have both an access key and a shortcut key.
AbtPushButtonView and AbtToggleButtonView do not have properties specifying shortcut keys unless they are part of a menu (AbtCwMenuView.)
Last modified date: 07/01/2019