Even the Keyboard shortcuts area shows no correlation between “C” and the Close command. It has been CTRL-W (or CTRL-F4)
I am not trying to invoke a keyboard shortcut. I am trying to use Windows access keys to open and select items from the main window's menu bar.
Look at Notepad. Pressing and releasing the Alt key results in this:
Pressing and releasing F opens the file menu:
Alt+F does the same thing. Instead of underlining the access keys, as has been used at least since Windows 3.1, Notepad uses an updated look by showing the access keys to the left of the menu.
Notepad++ uses a more classic Windows look:
Underlines denote the access keys. They are the fastest way to navigate a standard Windows menu tree. Even programs that don't support the visual display of access keys will often behave this way by default. The default behavior would be for the first letter of a menu or menu item to be used as the access key. If there are duplicates for the letter, then the menu or item will simply be highlighted, requiring the Enter key to open the menu or invoke the command associated with the item. It's a little hazy, but I believe that's how they behave.
The reason I am familiar with Windows interfaces is that I was the lead interface engineer for two software projects at a consulting company in the late 1990s. They ranged from 10-14 developers. Each of us was a member of the MSDN, giving us access to practically everything that MS ever made. I wrote the projects' interface guidelines. It was based on the Microsoft Windows Interface Guidelines.
The whole story goes back to 1961, when my father took me to work. I was 7, and he worked for Sikorsky, the helicopter company. He was a technician on the first helicopter simulator ever built. I got to sit in it as he switched it on. WOW!!! Did that have an effect on me!?!! I was ready when he came home from work the next day and demanded that he teach me math and electronics. Every evening after supper, we would sit at the kitchen table, and he would teach me math and electronics. I learned basic algebra and electricity that year. At the end of the year, he opened a TV "Sales and Service" shop, where I learned the practical side of electronics. By the time he left us (I was 9, my sister was 7, my mother was 7 months pregnant.), he had taught me Boolean algebra, trigonometry, basic differential and integral calculus, basic linear algebra, elementary differential equations, how to design a differential amplifier, Schmidt trigger..., how to operate a tube tester, DVTM, oscilloscope... We also touched on physics, philosophy, and world history. The old man only paid a single child care payment, but he left me far more than money could buy. - Stuart
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