Accelerator Keys for Button Menu Items Broken on Panther?

[Ian Wood]

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>> If one clicks on the button in Mac OSX  10.3.. the Cmd key symbol and  
>> letter "F" and "G" appear as expected on the item list. Trouble is,  
>> they don't work. They never did work for years in the IDE... and I  
>> recall at one point they did start working if you suspended the IDE  
>> from the Rev menus (I asked for that as a feature and it appeared to  
>> be fixed at one point)  and they did work for sure in standalones.
>>
>> but now, both the two latter scenarios are broken under Panther: the  
>> menuitem accelerator keys do not trigger the menu selection if you  
>> have Dev tools suspended and, worse, they now also don't work in a  
>> standalone built for Mac OSX
>
> <snip>
>
> I can confirm this with buttons as well as menus on 10.3.  Oddly  
> enough, mnemonics DO work on Panther, even though the docs  
> specifically say that they won't work on Mac OS.  This is in  
> standalones as well as in the IDE, but of course the letter isn't  
> underlined.
>
> I suppose a workaround is to handle the commandKeyDown message with a  
> series of if-thens for all the different combinations.
>
> Can anyone else confirm this?  I can't find it on Bugzilla, but am  
> about to add it.  I find it absolutely necessary for any kind of  
> production app, so the workaround it is...

This is now Bugzilla #1184.
http://www.runrev.com/revolution/developers/bugdatabase/show_bug.cgi? 
id=1184

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Ian