My reading of the Platinum requirements is the same as yours... you *do*
need those shortcuts (unless you get an exception from Palm Computing).
I don't see anything that says you have to stick with a-z, 0-9. I use
shortcut-$ for my "Currencies" menu item.
David
ScorePAD Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:1913@palm-dev-forum...
Are you sure? Have your apps passed Platinum testing without shortcuts on
all menu item? We were asked to have a shortcut for every menu item in the
documentation that explained why our app failed the testing. We added
shortcuts and passed the testing in 8/99. The specification reads:
For each menu command, verify a unique shortcut is assigned. Only About
<appname> does not require one...
However, we have added more menu items now.
By the way, we have a menu item that wipes out an atbat's data (not
undoable) and we didn't want to assign it a shortcut. They told us to use a
number as a shortcut but that all menu items must have a shortcut.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Sabram [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2000 2:23 PM
To: Palm Developer Forum
Subject: Re: Menu shortcut delima
You don't have to have ALL of your menu options take a shortcut. I suggest
you make, under your assumption, the seven least used items not have a
shortcut and call it at that. One of our apps has fifteen menu items and
only twelve of them have shortcuts.. The ones that you usually don't want
to shortcut are commands connected with deletion to keep a bad graffiti pen
stroke from accidentally removing something.
Steve
ScorePAD Support wrote:
> I have run out of menu shortcuts. I've used A-Z and 0-9 and I still have
7 menu items left. The Palm Platinum UI spec requires that menu shortcuts
be unique throughout the entire app. Once you use a shortcut, it can only
be reused on another screen for the exact same menu function. We had to
have our app re-tested after passing the Gremlin, memory leak, beaming, and
other difficult tests simply for menu shortcuts and we don't want that to
happen again.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
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