>> > Even in the GUI world, as many have pointed out already,
we commonly see > > single-letter shortcuts in dropdown menus.
Suppose a German application
> > has:
> >
> > [Ö]ffnen
> > [O]rdnen
>Aren't you not supposed to localize/internationalize the
hot-keys? If you did, you would break keyboard macro short-cut
programs (they would have to have a localized version of the
macro file for each language).
I thought you *were* supposed to do this, but I'm still
learning what's involved in localisation. I would have thought
that most shortcut keys are intended to be
mnemonic, e.g. "F" for "file", and this would be
language-specific.
With the use of COM/Automation in VBA, this is a non-issue
since the menu hotkeys are not intended to be used to access
application functionality programmatically -- there should be a
COM interface exposed. With the (not terribly extensive) amount
I have worked with VBA in Word, Excel and Access, I *very much*
prefer this way of doing things to what I had learned to do in
Excel 4, Wordbasic, and Word 3 & 4 for DOS before that. I
wouldn't complain one bit if someone decided to add VBA or
similar scripting support to a good text editor, or perhaps an
XML editor.
Peter
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