On 10/08/2007, Veli-Pekka Tätilä <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a method I can call to programmatically click a menu item? I'm > planning on calling it in the Ctrl+N handler in my accelerator table.
Not that I'm aware of. > I guess I could call the underlying subs that my menu items call, but > I'd rather have the keyboard control the UI, in stead. In C/C++ you'd create the Accelerator and Menu item with the same ID, and the the OS would do this all automatically for you (both Accelerators and Menu items generate WM_COMMAND messages, with a flag set to indicate which was used, but I don't see a way to utilise this functionality with Win32::GUI) > Its highly useful > for push buttons, for instance. As the hotkey pushes the button, the > user gets visual feedback and also as a screne reader user, I get > notified of the focus and button state change accordingly. is it > slightly "unorthodox" to click menus in hotkey handlers like that, in > staed of activating the underlying function? As a user I've always > disliked the fact that nothing visual happens when I save using the hot > key. SO I press alt+f, s in stead, and then the screen reader tells me > the file menu opens and closes confirming that something in deed > happened. Part of my desire to try the programmatic clicking of menu > items, too, would be to give this kind of visual feedback, even when the > hotkeys are used. You could probably code the hotkey handler to post 'alt-f' and 's' keystrokes to the thread's message queue, which might work. Regards, Rob. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-GUI-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-GUI-Users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/perl-win32-gui-users http://perl-win32-gui.sourceforge.net/
