Standard Accelerator Keys
Applications invariably need to define accelerator keys for actions,
and Qt provides functions to help with that, most importantly QAccel::shortcutKey().
Here is Microsoft's recommendations for accelerator key choice, with
comments about the Open Group's recommendations where they exist and
differ. For most commands, the Open Group either has no advice or
agrees with Microsoft.
The boldfaced letter plus Alt is Microsoft's recommended choice, and
we recommend supporting it. For an Apply button, for example, we
recommend setText( tr( "&Apply" ) );
If you have conflicting commands (e.g. About and Apply buttons in the
same dialog), you're on your own.
- About
- Always on Top
- Apply
- Back
- Browse
- Close (CDE: Alt-F4. Alt-F4 is "close window" in Windows.)
- Copy (CDE: Ctrl-C, Ctrl-Insert)
- Copy Here
- Create Shortcut
- Create Shortcut Here
- Cut
- Delete
- Edit
- Exit
- Explore
- File
- Find
- Help
- Help Topics
- Hide
- Insert
- Insert Object
- Link Here
- Maximize
- Minimize
- Move
- Move Here
- New
- Next
- No
- Open
- Open With
- Page Setup
- Paste
- Paste Link
- Paste Shortcut
- Paste Special
- Pause
- Play
- Print
- Print Here
- Properties
- Quick View
- Redo (CDE: Ctrl-Y, Shift-Alt-Backspace)
- Repeat
- Restore
- Resume
- Retry
- Run
- Save
- Save As
- Select All
- Send To
- Show
- Size
- Split
- Stop
- Undo (CDE: Ctrl-Z or Alt-Backspace)
- View
- What's This?
- Window
- Yes
There are also a lot of other keys and actions (that use other
modifier keys). See the Microsoft and Open Group documentation for
details.
The
Microsoft book has ISBN 0735605661. The corresponding Open Group
book is very hard to find, rather expensive and we cannot recommend
it. However, if you really want it, OGPubs@opengroup.org may be able
to help. Ask then for ISBN 1859121047. (This ISBN is correct, but is
not listed in any database we have seen.)
