From: Thomas, Timothy B [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > What is an accelerator?
Usually it's the keyboard action of holding Alt and pressing a letter to either "click" a button or pull down a menu. It can also be Ctrl+letter to invoke a menu action (like many programs understand Ctrl+S for "save"). The accelerator table can also hold basic keystrokes (tab, enter) to intercept when the user hits that key. It was called accelerator because in that context it could save the user the hassle of moving the hand to the mouse. When choosing the name, obviously nobody thought of the slowdown it imposed on the programmers side ;-)
